Title: Addison v. Ohio River Co.

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

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Addison, Guardian, Appellee, v. Ohio River Company et al.,                       
Appellees and Cross-Appellants; Consolidated Grain and Barge                     
Company, Appellant and Cross-Appellee.                                           
[Cite as Addison v. Ohio River Co. (1993),     Ohio St.3d    .]                  
Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed.                                       
     (No. 92-909 -- Submitted March 17, 1993 -- Decided July                     
28, 1993.)                                                                       
     Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County, Nos.                  
C-910057 and C-910059.                                                           
                                                                                 
     John Rockel, Sandor Korein and Michael B. Marker, for                       
appellee.                                                                        
     Rendigs, Fry, Kiely & Dennis, William P. Schroeder and                      
Ralph F. Mitchell, for appellees and cross-appellants.  Wood &                   
Lamping, David A. Caldwell and William R. Ellis, for appellant                   
and cross-appellee.                                                              
                                                                                 
     This cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been                         
improvidently allowed.                                                           
     A.W. Sweeney, Douglas, Resnick and F.E. Sweeney, JJ.,                       
concur.                                                                          
     Moyer, C.J., and Wright, J., dissent with opinion.                          
     Pfeifer, J., dissents.                                                      
     Wright, J., dissenting.    As to the claims against                         
appellant Consolidated Grain & Barge Co. ("CGB"), the court of                   
appeals misapplied Ohio's summary judgment standard.  Based on                   
Civ.R. 56(C) materials before the trial court, no reasonable                     
mind could conclude that CGB was liable to the third-party                       
plaintiffs.  I feel that the court of appeals' error was                         
significant given the importance of summary judgment in our                      
judicial system.  This court should have reached the merits and                  
reversed the judgment of the court of appeals.  I respectfully                   
dissent.                                                                         
     Moyer, C.J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.