# Hedrick v. Motorists Mutual Insurance

> Ohio Supreme Court · February 5, 1986 · 22 Ohio St. 3d 42

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6759143

## Case

- **Full name:** Hedrick v. Motorists Mutual Insurance Company
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** February 5, 1986
- **Citations:** 22 Ohio St. 3d 42; 22 Ohio B. 63; 488 N.E.2d 840; 1986 Ohio LEXIS 548
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Holmes
- **Judges:** Brown, Celebrezze, Douglas, Holmes, Locher, Sweeney, Wright
- **Cited by:** 64 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled on other grounds by Martin v. Midwestern Group Insurance, 70 Ohio St. 3d 478 (1994).
- Negative treatments: 2
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6759143

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that language in prior plurality opinion was not controlling, because it lacked four votes

## Opinion text

Holmes, J.,
concurring. With this well-written opinion, the majority of this court has now returned to a stance of construing contracts of insurance more reasonably, with the intent and purpose in mind of not only the General Assembly when it enacted R.C. 3937.18(E) [now (G)], but also that of the contracting parties. I commend this result as being in keeping with my dissent in Ady v. West American Ins. Co. (1982), 69 Ohio St. 2d 593, 604 [ 23 O.O.3d 495 ].

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