DECISION AND JUDGMENT ENTRY This case is on appeal from the September 24, 1999 judgment of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, which granted the summary judgment motion filed by appellee, Jeep Eagle Corporation, and dismissed the appeal of appellant, Thomas E. Murin, from a decision of the Industrial Commission of Ohio. On appeal, appellant asserts the following sole assignment of error:
"ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR NO. I THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED PREJUDICIAL ERROR IN RENDERING THE SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF SEPTEMBER 24, 1999 BECAUSE:
"A. THE AFFIDAVITS OF MY MURIN, ATTORNEY RUST, AND DR. BHATT, ALL FILED ON JULY 8, 1999 IN THIS ACTION, MADE A PRIMA FACIE CASE TAHT [SIC] THE PAIN DISABILITY, AND STRESS CAUSED FROM MR. MURIN'S RIGHT HAND INJURY SUSTAINED AT JEEP IN 1978, OR 1979, AND THE FINANCIAL HARDSHIPS DIRECTLY CAUSED BY SAID HAND INJURY, AND THE STRESS CAUSED MR. MURIN BY THE WAY THAT JEEP AND HIS UNION TREATED HIM AFTER THE SAID RIGHT HAND INJURY, ALL EVIDENCED, ADN [SIC] PROVED THAT HIS HEART ATTACK OF SEPTEMBER, 1993, INCLUDING THE `INFERIOR WALL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, HEART ATTACK, ADN [SIC] TRIPLE CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS' WERE PROXIMATELY CAUSED, BY HIS JOB AND JOB RELATED CONDITIONS, SO THAT THE SAME WERE RECEIVED IN THE COURSE OF, AND AROSE OUT OF MR. MURIN'S EMPLOYMENT AT JEEP AND HIS HAND INJURY OF 1978, 1979;
"B. THE COURT PREJUDICIALLY ERRED IN NOT GIVING PLAINTIFF MURIN AND HIS COUNSEL MORE TIME TO SECURE IN 1999 THE RELEVANT MEDICAL RECORDS OF MR. MURIN, AS MR. MURIN WAS WILING TO, AND DID SUPPLY, WRITTEN MEDICAL AUTHORIZATIONS TO SECURE REQUESTED MEDICAL RECORDS OF MR. MURIN, AS PLAINTIFF ADN [SIC] HIS COUNSEL WERE READY SO TO DO, AND PLAINTIFF SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN THUS MORE TIME TO TAKE THE DEPOSITION OF DR. NARESH BHATT; AND TO SECURE ALL THE RELEBANT [SIC] MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL RECORDS, AS MR. MURIN SINCE HIS INJURY HAS BEEN PRACTICALLY AND REALISTICALLY INDIGENT: AND SUCH AN EXTENTION [SIC] WOULD NOT UNDULY HAVE DELAYED THIS CASE, AS IT COULD ALL HAVE BEEN DONE IN A MONTH AS MOVED, OR AT THE LONGEST, BEFORE THE CASE WAS ONE YEAR OLD; AND SUCH WAS CALLED FOR, BY JUSTICE."
Appellant appealed to the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas from the Industrial Commission of Ohio's denial of his claim for a residual condition. Appellant injured his right thumb while working for Jeep Eagle Corporation in 1978 ("closed crush injury - right thumb; small fracture at ulnar aspect approximal phlanx base"). In February 1996, appellant filed a claim for a residual condition ("inferior wall myocardial infarction, a heart attack in September 1993, and a triple coronary artery bypass"). Appellant asserts that his treatment after his 1978 injury and the consequences of the injury itself caused undue stress which resulted in his heart problems. This claim was denied by the Industrial Commission. Appellant's first appeal to the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas was dismissed in January 1998, without prejudice, after he was unable to secure the medical