STATE EX REL. CLARK v. INDUS. COMM.

No. 97-2484.

84 Ohio St.3d 357 (1999)

THE STATE EX REL. CLARK, APPELLANT, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided January 20, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliott, Heller, Maas, Moro & Magill Co., L.P.A., and Richard L. Magill, for appellant.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Gerald H. Waterman, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Stewart Jaffy & Associates Co., L.P.A. Stewart R. Jaffy, Marc J. Jaffy and Lynn S. Jaffy, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.


The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed. A writ of mandamus directing the Industrial Commission to vacate its denial of compensation for the total loss of the second finger and to enter an order granting that compensation is allowed.

MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY and PFEIFER, JJ., concur.

COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., dissent.

LUNDBERG STRATTON, J., dissenting.

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