Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance v. American Excelsior Corp.

Appellant’s first proposition of law before this court is that the Court of Appeals committed prejudicial error by failing to comply with App. R. 12(A) in passing upon the second assignment of error before it. We agree.

App. R. 12(A) provides, in pertinent part:

“* * * All errors assigned and briefed [in the Court of Appeals] shall be passed upon by the court in writing, stating the reasons for the court’s decision.” Here, as in Smith v. Jaggers (1973), 33 Ohio St. 2d 1, the Court of Appeals failed to comply with the mandate of App. R. 12(A).

The record in this case bears evidence of the import…