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FRESHWATER v. SCHEIDT

No. 97-1502.

86 Ohio St.3d 260 (1999)

FRESHWATER ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. SCHEIDT ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided September 1, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur, O'Neil, Mertz & Bates Co., L.P.A., Rodney M. Arthur, Joseph W. O'Neil and Daniel R. Michel, for appellants.

Eastman & Smith, Ltd., Rudolph A. Peckinpaugh, Jr., and John D. Wiley, Jr., for appellees Robert B. Scheidt, M.D., F.A.C.S., and Robert B. Scheidt, M.D., F.A.C.S., Inc.

Robison, Curphey & O'Connell, E. Thomas Maguire and Timothy D. Krugh, for appellee Paulding County Hospital.

Leeseberg, Maloon, Schulman & Valentine and Geoffrey M. Wardle, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, L.L.P., and Carol A. Costa, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys.

DOUGLAS, J.

The central issue in this case concerns the extent to which statements from learned treatises and other publications may be used to impeach the testimony of expert witnesses. Prior to the promulgation of Evid.R. 706,2 effective July 1, 1998, rules governing the use of learned treatises evolved under the common law. In Hallworth v. Republic Steel Corp. (1950), 153 Ohio St. 349

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