MORRIS v. FIRST NATL. BANK & TRUST CO.,

No. 69-183.

21 Ohio St. 2d 25 (1970)

MORRIS, APPELLANT, v. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST CO. OF RAVENNA, OHIO, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided January 7, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. DiPaolo & Kirkwood and Mr. Charles E. Kirkwood, for appellant.

Messrs. Loomis, Jones, Poland, Wilson & Griffith and Mr. J. Philip Jones, for appellee.


HERBERT, J.

Ohio's summary judgment statute, Section 2311.041, Revised Code, first became effective on November 9, 1959. The act was designed to relieve crowded court dockets of those cases which could be disposed of as a matter of law upon documents filed in the cause. It was hoped that the new law would eliminate the time-wasting process of calling a case before a court or jury, hearing opening statements or oral evidence, and then discovering that there was a complete...

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