Court Opinion

ID: 9815360
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 00:46:32.464761+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:51.751815
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On Application for rehearing.
On Motion to certify.

Per Curiam.

Plaintiff, appellant herein, has made application for a rehearing and a motion to certify the record in this case to the Supreme Court for conflict with a judgment of the “Court of Appeals” for Cuyahoga County in the case noted below.
The application for rehearing presents nothing which has not already been carefully considered and passed upon. Counsel now emphasizes a constitutional argument that plaintiff has been deprived of his right of trial by jury by the action of the trial court in withdrawing from the consideration of the jury the question of testator’s alleged insane delusions. The trial court found as a matter of law that the evidence did not present a question for the jury’s determination, and we approved his finding. Hence, there being no jury question involved, plaintiff has been denied nothing to which he was entitled.
In support of the motion to certify, counsel cites the case of Jordan v. Mutual Life Ins. Co., 24 C. C. (N. S.), 49, 34 C. D., 469, as being in conflict with our judgment. In that case the court was passing upon the evidence which was in conflict and found the fact to be that an insured was of unsound mind and therefore incapable of changing his beneficiary. Physicians had testified “that he was an insane degenerate with paranoidal tendencies and delusions.” The existence of the facts upon which these opinions were based was apparently not challenged. Hence the question was entirely different from ours.
Furthermore, the case referred to was decided by the Cir*301cuit Court of Cuyahoga County in 1906, and we are not required nor empowered under the present Constitution of Ohio to certify the record unless we find the judgment to be in conflict with that of another Court of- Appeals, and in this connection judgments of the former Circuit Courts are not to be considered. McLarren v. Johnson, 91 Ohio St., 103, 110 N. E., 249, and 2 Ohio Jurisprudence (2d), 565, 568, Appellate Review, Section 12.
The application for rehearing is denied; the motion to certify is overruled.

Rehearing denied

Motion overruled.
Hoenbeck, P. J., Wiseman and Cbawfoed, JJ., concur.