Hunt v. Rohrbaugh Enterprises, Inc.

The question presented in this appeal is whether a petition, signed by plaintiff’s attorneys but not verified and which is timely filed and on which service of summons has been secured and return made thereon, may be thereafter *94amended by tbe addition to the petition of a verification of the pleaded facts?

While this question seems to have been considered and decided in a number of trial courts in the state going back many years and also in a few of the appellate districts, it appears to be a matter of first impression in this court.

In Ohio it is well known that verification of a pleading of…