Valentine v. Willard & Assoc. Title Search Serv.

2002 Ohio 5308, 96 Ohio St. 3d 1216

Opinion

[This decision has been published in Ohio Official Reports at 96 Ohio St.3d 1216.]

VALENTINE, EXR., APPELLANT, v. WILLARD & ASSOCIATES TITLE SEARCH SERVICES ET AL., APPELLEES. [Cite as Valentine v. Willard & Assoc. Title Search Serv., 2002-Ohio-5308.] Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed. (No. 2001-1417—Submitted April 24, 2002 at the Perry County Session— Decided October 16, 2002.) APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Fairfield County, No. 01-CA-15, 2001- Ohio-4397. __________________ {¶1} The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed. MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur. PFEIFER, J., dissents and would affirm the judgment of the court of appeals. __________________ Leeseberg, Schulman & Valentine, Gerald S. Leeseberg and Susie L. Hahn, for appellant. Ulmer & Berne, L.L.P., Jeffrey W. Van Wagner and Carl A. Anthony, for appellees. Thompson Hine, L.L.P., John T. Sunderland and Lisa A. Lomax, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Land Title Association. Thompson Hine, L.L.P., John T. Sunderland and Jennifer E. Short; and Eugene P. Whetzel, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio State Bar Association. __________________