BURENS v. INDUS. COMM.

No. 34000.

162 Ohio St. 549 (1955)

BURENS, APPELLEE, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided February 16, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Davis, Davis & Handleman and Mr. Abram M. Kaplan, for appellee.

Mr. C. William O'Neill, attorney general, Mr. Paul Tague, Jr., and Mr. James L. Young, for appellant.


BELL, J.

The first question involved in this appeal is whether an expert witness, in answering a hypothetical question, may draw an inference of injury from the premises stated, where such premises do not contain the fact of injury, and then proceed to base an opinion thereon as to causal relationship, where such inference is not confined to matters properly within the scientific field of inquiry of the witness.

The hypothetical question in issue is long and...

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