BLODGETT v. KAHN, 78 Ohio St.3d 1226 (1997)

679 N.E.2d 1

BLODGETT ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. KAHN ET AL.: LIMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, APPELLEE.

No. 96-757Supreme Court of Ohio.Submitted April 15, 1997 —
Decided June 4, 1997.

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hancock County, No. 5-95-32.

Williams, Jilek, Lafferty Gallagher Co., L.P.A., Martin W. Williams and Peter O. DeClark, for appellants.

Robison, Curphey O’Connell and E. Thomas Maguire, for appellee.

Leeseberg, Maloon, Schulman Valentine and Jeffrey L. Maloon, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Elsass, Wallace, Evans, Schnelle Co., L.P.A., and Stanley R. Evans, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Hospital Association.

The appeal is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.

MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.

DOUGLAS, J., dissents.

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