Opinion

McManus v. Belcher

  • 73 Ohio St. 3d 106
  • 1995 Ohio 123
Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Filed
Aug 16, 1995
Status
Published
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 39.6%

The opinion

[This opinion has been published in Ohio Official Reports at 73 Ohio St.3d 106.]

MCMANUS, GUARDIAN, ET AL., APPELLANTS AND CROSS-APPELLEES, v.

BELCHER, D.B.A. SHORELAND AUTO CARE, APPELLEE; CHRYSLER

CORPORATION, APPELLEE AND CROSS-APPELLANT.

[Cite as McManus v. Belcher, 1995-Ohio-123.]

Appeal—Guardians—R.C. 2305.16—Tolling of statute of limitations—Appeal

dismissed as improvidently allowed—Products liability claims for bodily

injury governed by two-year statute of limitations period in R.C. 2305.10

and not by six-year statute of limitations period in R.C. 2305.07.

No. 95-380—Submitted June 6, 1995—Decided August 16, 1995.)

APPEAL and CROSS-APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Lucas County, No.

L-94-032.

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Cubbon & Associates Co., L.P.A., Robert J. Bahret and David L. Rice, for

appellants and cross-appellees.

Jones & Bahret Co., L.P.A., and Peter C. Munger, for appellee Garry D.

Belcher, d.b.a. Shoreland Auto Care.

Thompson, Hine & Flory, Stephen H. Daniels and Mark N. Rose, for

appellee Coltec Industries, Inc.

Crabbe, Brown, Jones, Potts & Schmidt and Charles E. Brown, for appellee

and cross-appellant Chrysler Corporation.

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{¶ 1} The appeal is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently

allowed. The judgment of the court of appeals as to the issue raised on cross-appeal

is reversed, and the judgment of the trial court as to cross-appellant Chrysler

Corporation is reinstated on the authority of McAuliffe v. W. States Import Co., Inc.

(1995), 72 Ohio St.3d 534, 651 N.E.2d 957.

SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

MOYER, C.J., WRIGHT, PFEIFER and COOK, JJ., concur.

F.E. SWEENEY, J., dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in

McAuliffe v. W. States Import Co., Inc. (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d 534, 651 N.E.2d 957.

DOUGLAS and RESNICK, JJ., not participating.

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