Title: Freeman v. Holzer Med. Ctr.

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

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Freeman, Admr., Appellee, v. Holzer Medical Center, Appellant,                   
et al.                                                                           
[Cite as Freeman v. Holzer Med. Ctr. (1993),     Ohio St.3d                      
.]                                                                               
Appellate procedure -- Supreme Court jurisdiction -- Certified                   
     conflict case -- Dismissal of appeal when no conflict                       
     exists -- Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed, when.                  
(Nos. 92-1169 and 92-1005 -- Submitted March 10, 1993 --                         
Decided June 30, 1993.)                                                          
     Certified by and Appeal from the Court of Appeals for                       
Gallia County, No. 91 CA 8.                                                      
                                                                                 
     Wilcox, Schlosser & Bendig Co., L.P.A., and Charles H.                      
Bendig; and John J. Duffey, for appellee.                                        
     Earl, Warburton, Adams & Davis, Ted L. Earl and Grier D.                    
Schaffer, for appellant.                                                         
                                                                                 
     The cause in case No. 92-1169 came before this court upon                   
the certification of the court of appeals that its judgment                      
conflicted with the judgment of the Court of Appeals for                         
Franklin County in McCrory v. Children's Hosp. (1986), 28 Ohio                   
App.3d 49, 28 OBR 61, 501 N.E.2d 1238, upon the following                        
question:                                                                        
     "* * * [W]hether a party is provided a full and fair                        
opportunity to litigate issues in the Court of Claims such that                  
the rule requiring a mutuality of parties may be relaxed and                     
[that appellee Joy L. Freeman] can be collaterally estopped                      
from relitigating those issues in subsequent jury trials                         
against different parties."                                                      
     Having examined McCrory and the record in the present                       
cause, we find that the judgments do not conflict on the                         
certified question.  Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.                       
State v. Palider (1987), 33 Ohio St.3d 68, 514 N.E.2d 873; Cook                  
v. Mayfield (1988), 37 Ohio St.3d 44, 523 N.E.2d 502; Hays v.                    
St. Elizabeth Hosp. Med. Ctr. (1988), 38 Ohio St.3d 60, 526                      
N.E.2d 307; State v. Radar (1989), 47 Ohio St.3d 112, 548                        
N.E.2d 210; State v. Parobek (1990), 49 Ohio St.3d 61, 550                       
N.E.2d 476; Whitelock v. Gilbane Bldg. Co. (1993), 66 Ohio                       
St.3d    ,     N.E.2d    , paragraph one of the syllabus; and                    
Section 3(B)(4), Article IV, Ohio Constitution.                                  
     Finding no conflict on the certified question, we dismiss                   
the appeal in case No. 92-1005 as having been improvidently                      
allowed.                                                                         
     A.W. Sweeney, Acting C.J., Spellacy, Douglas, Wright,                       
Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.                                  
     Leo M. Spellacy, J., of the Eighth Appellate District,                      
sitting for Moyer, C.J.