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OVERVIEW: A grantee to an assignment was disqualified from acting as the notary under R.C, ß 5301.01(A) and because he did sign as notary, the assignment was not properly acknowledged and could not be recorded under R.C. ß 5301.25(A); the assignment passed title as against the grantors and their heirs given that no fraud was found.
CORE TERMS; lease, oil, recorded, deed, summary judgment, paying quantities, conveyance, gas lease, acknowledgment, flat-rate ,,.
For Plaintiff-Appellant: Attorney John R. Estadt, Hanion, Estadt, McCormick, & Schramm Co,, LPA, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
OVERVIEW: A pipeline operator was entitled to summary judgment when sued for trespass for placing a natural gas pipeline along a county road because (1) the operator had the county commissioners' permission to lay the pipeline within a public roadway easement, under R.C. 5547.05, and (2) the evidence showed the pipeline served a public use of the easement.
OVERVIEW: R.C. 2109,13 did not relieve a guardian, his bonding company, or a depository bank of liability for the guardian's withdrawal of funds from his wards' sequestered accounts without a required court order because the bank had acknowledged that a court order was required for the withdrawals and it was not shown that the guardian acted in good faith.
OVERVIEW: A trial court properly dismissed a fraudulent transfer claim for failure to state a cause of action, pursuant to Ohio R. Civ. P. 12 (B)(6), as the alleged fraudulently conveyed property was transferred to one who was not a creditor or a debtor under Ohio Rev. Code Ann, ßß 1336,04 and 1336.07, and she could not be held liable.
... Teeples, Ricketts Co., LPA, Columbus, Ohio. For Defendants-Appellees; Atty. Erik A. Schramm, Hanlon, Duff, Estadt & McCormtck, St. Clairsville, Ohio; Atty. Christopher J.
OVERVIEW: Since the employee, in an Ohio Rev. Code Ann. ß 4123.512 appeal, could seek to participate in the Workers' Compensation Fund only for those conditions that were addressed in the administrative order from which the appeal was taken, he was not entitled to participate in the Fund based on his amended complaint which added new injuries.
OVERVIEW: ERISA preempted a statute barring paying life insurance funds to an insured's slayer, federal common law barred paying them to slayer, and policy's contingent and no surviving beneficiary clauses were not triggered; proceeds went to insured's estate.
OVERVIEW: Verdict was supported by sufficient evidence. Where transcript of jury instructions was not provided on appeal, any claim of error relating to instructions was precluded.
OVERVIEW: Without a transcript of the trial court's proceedings, on appeal the court could not address the question of venue, and presumed the regularity of the proceedings below.
... Se, Carrollton, Ohio. For Defendant-Appellant: Attorney John R. Estadt, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
OVERVIEW; Without a transcript of the trial court's proceedings, on appeal the court could not address the question of venue, and presumed the regularity of the proceedings below.
- Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co. v. Miliiken, No. 98-4395, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, 200 F,3d 942; 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 33996; 1999 FED App. 043 IP (6th Cir.). October 29, 1999, Argued , December 29, 1999, Decided . December 29, 1999, Filed, Rehearing En Banc Denied March 2, 2000, Reported at: 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 3382. Certiorari Dented October 2, 2000, Reported at; 2000 U.S. LEXIS 5089.
OVERVIEW: The order was affirmed in a black lung benefits case because the court found that their 1989 opinion did not preclude the administrative law judge (ALJ) from modifying a 1986 order and thus the ALJ had jurisdiction to hear respondent's request.
OVERVIEW; An appellee subcontractor who committed acts knowing that injury was substancially certain to occur was not entitled to a directed verdict in an action for international tort and wrongful death arising when a trench buried appellant's decedent.
- Bumgardner v. Ohio Valley Coal Co., No. 98-3753, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 15160, July 2, 1999, Filed , NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION. SIXTH CIRCUIT RULE 206 LIMITS CITATION TO SPECIFIC SITUATIONS, PLEASE SEE RULE 206 BEFORE CITING IN A PROCEEDING IN A COURT IN THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. IF CITED, A COPY MUST BE SERVED ON OTHER PARTIES AND THE COURT. THIS NOTICE IS TO BE PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED IF THIS DECISION IS REPRODUCED. Reported in Table Case Format at; 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 27736.
OVERVIEW: A coal miner's widow was denied survivor's benefits based upon testimony of several experts that heavy smoking was the sole cause of death from lung cancer, contradicting the autopsy physician's opinion that promiscuities contributed to the death.
OVERVIEW: Dismissal of employee's workers compensation suit against employer was Improper after she fell on snow-covered steps, injuring her lower back, because trial court erred as it had no grounds to grant either dismissal or a motion for summary judgment.
OVERVIEW: The trial court's affirmance of the decision of the Ohio Bureau of Employment Sendees that found an employee available for work was proper, but the trial court should have also determined whether a discharge during lay-off was for good cause.
... Hanlon, Duff, Paleudis & Estadt Co., L.P.A., and John G. Paleudis, for appellee Consolidation Coal Co.
OVERVIEW: An employee who worked as a coal miner for 37 years was entitled to benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act after he established a material change in his conditions, resulting in total disability caused at least partly by pneumoconiosis.
- JONIDA TRUCKING. INC. v. HUNT. No, 96-3472, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, 124 FJd 739; 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 16206: 1997 FED App. 026IP (6ih Cir.). April 21. 1997, Argued, June 26, 1 997. Decided , June 26. 1997, Filed 11 This decision was originally issued as an "unpublished decision" filed on June 26. 1997. On August 13, 1997, the court designated the opinion as one recommended for full-text publication. The Publication Status of this Document has been Changed by the Court from Unpublished to Published August 13. 1 907.
OVERVIEW: An employer of employee/claimant was not the proper party to argue that its employee's best interests were served by allowing him to forfeit payments in an action involving black lung benefits awarded to the employee.
ARGUED: John G. Paleudis. HANLON. DUFF. PALEUDIS & ESTADT. St. Clairsville. Ohio SOLICITOR, Washington, D.C.. for Respondent. ON BRIEF: John G. Paleudis, HANLON. DUFF. PALEUDiS & ESTADT. St. Clairsville, Ohio.
- State ex rel. Quarto Mining Co. v. Foreman, No. 95-248, SUPREME COURT OF OHIO, 79 Ohio St. 3d 78; 1997 Ohio 71: 679 N.EJd 706; 1997 Ohio LEXIS 1189, March 18, 1997, Submitted, June 18, 1997, Decided, As Amended June 20, 1997.
OVERVIEW: Where the employer had not raised the question of a workers' compensation claimant's retirement previously, it could not do so in its mandamus action. The industrial commission was not required to raise the retirement issue on its own initiative.
Hanlon, Duff, Paleudis & Estadt Co., L.P.A.. and John G. Paleudis, for appellant. La rimer & hammer and David H.
- State ex rel. Consolidation Coal Co. v. Indus. Comm'n, No. 94-2708 , SUPREME COURT OF OHIO, 78 Ohio St 3d 176: 1 997 Ohio 46; 677 N.EJd 358; 1997 Ohio LEXIS 832, January 7, 1997, Submitted , April 16. 1997, Decided. As Amended.
OVERVIEW: An employer was not entitled to a writ of mandamus to prevent the Ohio Industrial Commission from paying workers' compensation for total permanent disability where art employee sustained three-work related injuries rendering hum unable to work.
OVERVIEW; A juvenile court permissibly refused to adopt a referee's recommendation that a father be held in contempt of court for denying a mother scheduled telephone access to three children on several evenings due to the father's activities with children.
OVERVIEW; A seller was not liable when buyers of her lot discovered that part of the lot was flooded because the purchase agreement stated that the property was being purchased after examination by the buyers, and the seller did not conceal the condition.
OVERVIEW: A juvenile court permissibly refused to adopt a referee's recommendation that a father be held in contempt of court for denying a mother scheduled telephone access to three children on several evenings due to the father's activities with children.
- Retch v. Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co., No. 94-3728, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, 66 FJd 111; 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 27138; 1995 FED App. 0291P (6th Cir.), August 3, 1995, Argued, September 22, 1995, Decided , September 22, 1995, Filed, Rehearing En Banc Denied November 28, 1995, Reported at: 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 35202.
OVERVIEW: Coal company was liable for interest on payments made from Black Lung Disability Trust Fund when the government miscalculated interest and demanded additional payments; and was liable on interest accrued while challenging medical benefits only claim.
OVERVIEW: Personal representative of deceased miner was entitled, under Black Lung Benefits Act, to pursue claim of miner for black lung disability benefits owed to miner at his death, and evidence created interim presumption of entitlement.
... THE YOUGHIOGHENY AND OHIO COAL COMPANY, Petitioner: John G. Paleudis, ARGUED, BRIEFED, Hanlon, Duff, Paleudis & Estadt, St.
OVERVIEW: After a state statute requiring bifurcation in intentional court cases was declared unconstitutional, a trial court could decide both liability and damages.
- Reich v. Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co., No. 94-3728, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, 66 F.3d 111; 1995 U.S. App, LEXIS 27138; 1995 FED App. 0291P (6th Cir.), August 3, 1995, Argued , September 22, 1995, Decided , September 22, 1995, Filed , Rehearing En Banc Denied November 28, 1995, Reported at: 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 35202.
compensation bureau, where company faded o show that the commission abused its discretion in its determination of a claimant's employment capabilities.
... Hanlon, Duff, Paleudis & Estadt Co., L.P.A., and John G. Paleudis. for appellant.
OVERVIEW: The employee's writ of mandamus to compel the industrial commission to grant his motion to change his election, which was made after his retirement, was denied.
Hanlon, Duff & Paleudis Co., L.P.A., and John G. Paleudis, tor respondent Consolidation Coal Company. Lee I.
OVERVIEW: The industrial commission abused its discretion in refusing to grant temporary total disability compensation based upon a physician's report. The report lacked evidence to support a denial of temporary total disability compensation.
... Ohio. Hanlon, Duff & Paleudis Co., L.P.A,, and John G. Paleudis, for respondent Quarto Mining Company.
OVERVIEW; The city had responsibility to keep the devil strip where the wife slipped and fell open, in repair, and free from nuisance, but the property owners were not liable since there was no evidence that they used the devil strip for their private benefit.
OVERVIEW: The city had responsibility to keep the devil strip where the wife slipped and fell open, in repair, and free from nuisance, but the property owners were not liable since there was no evidence that they used the devil strip tor their private benefit.
OVERVIEW; Where a contractor did not specifically assign a figure to lost profits at any point during trial, the contractor failed o prove with reasonable certainty the lost profits that were calculated by the trial judge.
OVERVIEW; Where a contractor did not specifically assign a figure to lost profits at any point during trial, the contractor failed to prove with reasonable certainty the lost profits that were calculated by the trial judge.
OVERVIEW: The court aimed a decision to award applicant benefits for pneumoconiosis because his total pulmonary disability was caused at least in pan by his exposure to coal, despite the fact that he suffered disabling injuries in a vehicular accident.
OVERVIEW: Dismissal of oil company's appeal was appropriate because neither an administrative law judge nor the Benefits Review Board had subject matter jurisdiction over the claim.
OVERVIEW; Because voluntary retirement precluded receipt of permanent total disability benefits, the miner's claim was returned to the Industrial Commission for further proceedings to explore the circumstances that precipitated the miner's retirement.
OVERVIEW: While not expressly addressing the contemporaneous payment of permanent partial disability compensation and permanent total disability compensation for the same injury, the Ohio statute evinced a legislative intent to prohibit simultaneous receipt.
requirement that commission specifically state the evidence relied upon and briefly explain its reasoning for a workers' compensation award to a claimant.
Hanlon, Duff & Paleudis Co., L.P.A,, and John G, Paleudis, for appellant. Larimer & Larimer and David H.
OVERVIEW: Attorney's fees were not included in litigation costs unless specifically provided by statute. There was no statutory basis tor the conclusion that attorney's fees were included in die costs of a previously dismissed action payable to a defendant.
Appellee,Hanlon, Duff & Paleudis Co.. L.P.A.. and John G. Paleudis, for appellant.
substantially certain to cause injury.
OVERVIEW: Employee was entitled to further workers' compensation benefits for a psychological disorder related to his allowed physical injury because it was supported by the admissible expert testimony of his qualified psychologist.
OVERVIEW; The state human services department properly terminated Medicaid assistance to benefit recipients as a trust constituted an asset in excess of the resource limitation and the recipients did not demonstrate that the trust was unavailable and exempt.
OVERVIEW: The state human services department properly terminated Medicaid assistance to benefit recipients as a trust constituted an asset in excess of the resource limitation and the recipients did not demonstrate that the trust was unavailable and exempt.
OVERVIEW; Defendant was charged with a violation of a first-degree misdemeanor and therefore had to be brought to trial within ninety days after his arrest or the service of summons or his right to a speedy trial 'would have been denied.
vocational and educational training precluded him from seeking other employment, he was properly found permanently and totally disabled.
OVERVIEW: Where there was no binding of bad faith or frivolousness. and no statutory authority, there could be no award of attorneys' fees or litigation expenses as part of an award of costs.
- State ex rel. Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co. v. Redder, No, 89-816. Supreme Court of Ohio. 85 Ohio St. 3d 109; 564 N.EJd 76; 1990 Ohio EEXIS 1505, August 29, 1990, Submitted . December 5. 1990, Decided, Rehearing Dented January 16, 1990. As Corrected.
OVERVIEW: An employee should not have been awarded temporary total compensation benefits for his accepted work-related injury because no evidence supported a binding that his condition was temporary but showed he had reached a maximum level of recovery.
Hanlon, DulT& Paleudis Co., L.P.A., and John G. Paleudis, for appellee. Larrimer & Larrimer and David H.
OVERVIEW: Defendant was charged with a violation of a first-degree misdemeanor and therefore had to be brought to trial within ninety days later his arrest or the service of summons or his right to a speedy trial would have been denied.
OVERVIEW: Tank owner was not negligent when its actions were not proximate cause of death to person who inhaled helium, and property owner was not negligent because it only owed a duty not to injure decedent by willful or wanton misconduct.
... Jeffers. Hanlon, Duff & Paleudis Co., L.P.A., and John G. Paleudis, for appellant James C. Dawes Co., Inc.
OVERVIEW: Because an industrial commission failed to specify in its order denying permanent total disability benefits to a claimant that it had considered nonmedical disability factors such as age, education, work record, and others, a remand was proper.
... appellee. Hanlon, Duff & Paleudis Co., L.P.A., and John G. Paleudis, for appellant.
OVERVIEW: Dismissal of company as the responsible operator in a black lung widows' benefits case was improper because the administrative law judge improperly concluded that company should have been dismissed.
OVERVIEW: Employer was entitled to writ of mandamus to compel the Industrial Commission of Ohio to determine properly an employee's application for permanent and total disability and to specifically state the basis for its determination.
OVERVIEW: An employer was entitled to mandamus relief to vacate an order of the Industrial Commission of Ohio that continued claimant's temporary total benefits even though claimant's condition had become permanent when, he reached maximum medical improvement.
OVERVIEW: Appellant's complaint to determine heirship to an estate was properly dismissed because she failed to establish a common law marriage with the decedent by clear and convincing evidence.
Thomas A. Hampton, Barnesville, Ohio, For Plaintiff-Appellant. John R. Estadt, St. Clairsville, Ohio, For Defendants-Appellees.
OVERVIEW; A trial court had sufficient evidence to award a father the custody of the parties' minor child where the evidence showed that he was the primary caregiver and that the best interests of the child would best be served by awarding the father custody.
... John R. Estadt, Hanlon, Duff & Paleudis Co., LPA, St. Clairsville, Ohio, For Plaintiff- ..
... A. Hampton, Barnesville, Ohio, For Plainiff-Appellant John R. Estadt, St. Clairsville, Ohio, For Defendants-Appellees.
OVERVIEW: A trial court had sufficient evidence to award a father die custody of the parties* minor child where the evidence showed that lie was the primary caregiver and that the best interests of the child would best be served by awarding the father custody.
OVERVIEW: Summary judgment was improperly granted in a nuisance action where there were conflicting affidavits as to whether a horse kept on property created a stench. Whether the complaining parties should have known about the horse was to be decided.
OVERVIEW: An employee was entitled to benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act because there was substantial evidence that his disability was due to pneumoconiosis.
John G. Paleudis (argued), Hanlon, Duff & Paleudis, Co., for Appellant.
OVERVIEW: Claimant for benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act must Ile with a deputy commissioner of Benefits Review Board, rather than an administrative law judge (ALJ), a request for modification of an ALJ decision regarding entitlement to benefits.
OVERVIEW: Benefits Review Board's decision that employer would be liable for employee's black lung benefits was not a initial order and collateral order rule was inapplicable where the transfer decision was reviewable after a decision on the events.
OVERVIEW: The court denied an employer's wit of mandamus to compel the Industrial Commission to vacate its order allowing the claimant to reactivate his claim and pay for surgery contemplated because the employer failed to exhaust its administrative remedies.
OVERVIEW: A judgment that a miner was entitled o benefits provided by Ohio Workers' Compensation Law for claim that he had pneumoconiosis or "black lung," an occupational disease, was proper because miner's cross-examination of employer's experts was proper.
OVERVIEW; Breathalyzer test result was admissible only if test was administered within two hours of alleged violation, and defendant's conviction was reversed where officer who investigated one-car accident could not establish time that defendant was driving.
OVERVIEW: In a claim for Mack lung benefits, miner's age was not a factor in the court's determination of whether he was able to perform his usual coal mine work.
Armstrong, Argued. Clairsville. Ohio, Kinder. Kinder & Hanlon, John G. Paleudis, tor Respondents.
adequate remedy at law due to Commission's jurisdictional determination that employee's letter was an application for compensation.
OVERVIEW: An employer's wit of mandamus action to order the Industrial Commission to consider the extent of an employee's temporary total disability was tiled prematurely because the Commission's determination was still under appeal by the employer.
OVERVIEW: Because a decision that the right to compensation was not time barred constituted a decision on the claimant's right to participate in the workers' compensation fund, it was appealable, and therefore the employer had an adequate remedy at law.
OVERVIEW: The hearing officer's decision denying the employer's request for further hearing in this case did not become effective, and the thirty-day appeal time did not begin to run. until the decision was served on the parties.
- Hanlon Ins. Agency v. Midwestern indent. Co., NO. 82-B-l. COURT OF APPEALS, SEVENTH APPELLATE DISTRICT. BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO, 1983 Ohio App. LEXIS 14158, August 11, 1983.
that it would not renew their policy because the insurer was required by statutory law and express policy terms to do so.
Gerald Duff and John G, Paleudis, St. Clairsville, Ohio for Consolidation Coal Company.
OVERVIEW; Where a workers* compensation claimant died before judicial review proceedings commenced in the trial court, the proceedings had to be dismissed as there was no substitute party and the claim was extinguished by the claimant's death.

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