Bentley v. Pendleton

Full title: BENTLEY ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. PENDLETON ET AL.; AMERICAN HOME ASSURANCE…

Court: Supreme Court of Ohio

Date published: May 4, 2005

825 N.E.2d 1111 (Ohio 2005)

825 N.E.2d 1111

2005 Ohio 1824

Opinion

No. 2004-1135.

Submitted March 30, 2005.

Decided May 4, 2005.

Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Pike County, No. 03CA722, 2004-Ohio-3848.

Robert W. Kerpsack Co., L.P.A, and Robert W. Kerpsack, for appellants.

Wiles, Boyle, Burkholder Bringardner Co., L.P.A., Michael L. Close, and Dale D. Cook, Columbus; Janik Dorman, L.L.P., Stacy Lilly, and Matthew Grimm, Cleveland, for appellee.

{¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Gilchrist v. Gonsor, 104 Ohio St.3d 599, 2004-Ohio-7103, 821 N.E.2d 154, and the cause is remanded to the court of appeals for consideration of the remaining assignments of error and for further proceedings not inconsistent with Gilchrist v. Gonsor.

MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, PFEIFER, O'CONNOR and O'DONNELL, JJ., concur.

LUNDBERG STRATTON and LANZINGER, JJ., dissent.

LUNDBERG STRATTON, J., dissenting.

{¶ 2} For reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in Gilchrist v. Gonsor, 104 Ohio St.3d 599, 2004-Ohio-7103, 821 N.E.2d 154, ¶ 14-23, I respectfully dissent.

LANZINGER, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.