Ohio Supreme Court, 1978

The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed Bridgeman's conviction, holding that Crim. R. 29(A) did not change Ohio's longstanding standard for submitting an issue to the jury — reasonable minds can reach different conclusions on whether each material element of the crime was proved beyond a reasonable doubt — and that the…

The court held that the trial court's finding that the delayed steel delivery was not the proximate cause of Foley's damages was supported by some competent, credible evidence and therefore could not be reversed as against the manifest weight of the evidence.

In a per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed the Court of Appeals' affirmance of summary judgment for the defendant employers. The court held that under Civ. R. 56(E) a party opposing a properly supported summary judgment motion may not rest on the mere allegations or denials of its pleadings but must…

The Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed the Court of Appeals' affirmance of the trial court's partial summary judgment for Buckeye Pipe Line Company. Construing the 1911 right-of-way agreement, the court held that "alongside of" carries a geographical rather than numerical connotation, so the four additional pipe lines…

The court held that the self-defense instruction improperly placed on the defendant the burden of proving self-defense by a preponderance of the evidence, but the defendant waived the error by failing to object and did not establish plain error.