Title: Neal v. A-Best Prods. Co.

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Cite as Neal v. A-Best Prods. Co., 116 Ohio St.3d 299, 2007-Ohio-6453.] 
 
 
 
NEAL, APPELLEE, v. A-BEST PRODUCTS COMPANY ET AL., APPELLANTS. 
[Cite as Neal v. A-Best Prods. Co., 116 Ohio St.3d 299, 2007-Ohio-6453.] 
Certified question answered and court of appeals’ judgment reversed on the 
authority of In re Special Docket No. 73958, and cause remanded to the 
court of appeals for review of appellants’ assignments of error. 
(Nos. 2007-1470 and 2007-1645 — Submitted October 9, 2007 — Decided 
December 12, 2007.) 
CERTIFIED by and APPEAL from the Court of Appeals  
for Montgomery County, No. 22026. 
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{¶ 1} The discretionary appeal is accepted and the certified question is 
recognized. 
{¶ 2} The certified question is answered by our opinion in In re Special 
Docket No. 73958, 115 Ohio St.3d 425, 2007-Ohio-5268, 875 N.E.2d 596.  The 
judgment of the court of appeals dismissing appellants’ appeal is reversed on the 
authority of In re Special Docket No. 73958, and the cause is remanded to the 
court of appeals for review of appellants’ assignments of error. 
 
MOYER, 
C.J., 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
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Young, Reverman & Mazzei Co., L.P.A., and Richard E. Reverman, for 
appellee. 
Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, L.L.P., Richard D. Shuster, Nina I. 
Webb-Lawton, Anthony L. Osterlund, and Michael J. Hendershot, for appellants 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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Amchem Products, Inc., CertainTeed Corp., H.B. Fuller Co., and Union Carbide 
Corp. 
Sutter, O’Connell & Farchione, Matthew C. O’Connell, and Victoria D. 
Barto, for appellants Anchor Packing Co., Garlock Sealing Technologies L.L.C., 
Inc., and Riley Stoker Corp. 
Roetzel & Andress, Susan Squire Box, and Brad A. Rimmel, for appellant 
Mobil Corp. 
Tucker, Ellis & West, L.L.P., Joseph J. Morford, Jeffrey A. Healy, and 
John P. Patterson, for appellant A.W. Chesterton Co. 
Blank Rome, L.L.P., Michael L. Cioffi, and William M. Huse, for 
appellant Honeywell International, Inc. 
Tucker, Ellis & West, L.L.P., and Henry Billingsley, for appellants BOC 
Group, Inc., f.k.a. Airco, Inc., Hobart Brothers Co., and Lincoln  Electric Co. 
McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., L.P.A., and David A. Schaefer, 
for appellant Rapid American Corp. 
Ulmer & Berne, L.L.P., Bruce P. Mandel, and Kurt S. Siegfried, for 
appellant Ohio Valley Insulating Co., Inc. 
David L. Day, for appellant John Crane, Inc. 
Oldham & Dowling, Reginald S. Kramer, and Terri L. Nass, for appellants 
General Electric Co. and CBS Corp./Viacom, Inc./Westinghouse. 
Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P., and Wade A. Mitchell, for appellants McGraw 
Construction Co. and McGraw/Kokosing, Inc. 
Eagen & Wycoff Co., L.P.A., Thomas L. Eagen Jr., and Christine Carey 
Steele, for appellant Mallinckrodt Group, Inc., f.k.a. International Minerals & 
Chemical Corp. 
Ulmer & Berne, L.L.P., Timothy M. Fox, Charles R. Janes, James N. 
Kline, Kurt S. Siegfried, Robert E. Zulandt III, and Sally A. Jamieson, for 
appellant Georgia-Pacific, L.L.C., f.k.a. Georgia-Pacific Corp. 
January Term, 2007 
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Ralph J. Palmisano, Nicholas L. Evenchan, and Jeffrey J. Manning, for 
appellant Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. 
Bunda, Stutz & DeWitt, L.L.P., and Rebecca C. Sechrist, for appellant 
Owens-Illinois, Inc. 
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