Ohio Supreme Court, 1904

National Life Insurance v. Hanner

National Life Insurance v. Hanner
Ohio Supreme Court · Decided June 14, 1904 · Crew, Davis, Price, Shauck, Spear, Summers
70 Ohio St. (N.S.) 504

National Life Insurance v. Hanner

Opinion of the Court

On rehearing. Former judgment set aside. Judgments of the circuit court and of the common pleas. *505reversed and judgment for plaintiff in error on undisputed facts.

Davis, Shauck, Price, Crew and Summers, JJ.,. concur.

Dissenting Opinion

Spear, C. J.,

dissents on the ground that the rendition of judgment for plaintiff in error results in a. denial of the constitutional right of trial by jury. It substitutes the judgment of five men selected to pass, upon questions of law for the judgment of twenty-four men (two juries), selected especially for the determination of questions of fact, supplemented by two judges of the common pleas and of three judges of the circuit court, all of whom are also selected for the duty of determining questions of fact.

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