Case Name: The Central Gas Company v. Hope Oil Company
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1925
Citations: 3 Ohio Law Abs. 660
Docket Number: No. 18355
Parties: The Central Gas Company v. Hope Oil Company.
Judges: Marshall, CJ., Jones, Matthias, Allen, Kin-kade and Robinson, JJ., concur.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 3
Pages: 660–660

Head Matter:
No. 891
No. 18355
The Central Gas Company v. Hope Oil Company.
Error to the Court of Appeals of Monroe county.
1235. VERDICT—Where special findings of fact returned by jury are inconsistent with the general verdict, said verdict should be disregarded in so far as the inconsistency exists.

Opinion:
DAY, J.
1. An affirmance by the court of appeals of the common pleas court in refusing to grant a judgment upon special findings of fact, which are inconsistent with the general verdict, is a final order, and error lies to this court without noting an exception to the action of the court of appeals.
2. Where special findings of fact returned by a jury are clearly irreconcilable upon the record with the general verdict, it is error for the trial, court to refuse to set aside and. disregard the general verdict, in so far as such special findings are inconsistent therewith, and to give judgment accordingly.
Judgment reversed.
Marshall, CJ., Jones, Matthias, Allen, Kin-kade and Robinson, JJ., concur.