Freeman v. Holzer Medical Center

The cause in case No. 92-1169 came before this court upon the certification of the court of appeals that its judgment conflicted with the judgment of the Court of Appeals for Franklin County in McCrory v. Children’s Hosp. (1986), 28 Ohio App.3d 49, 28 OBR 61, 501 N.E.2d 1238, upon the following question:

“ * * * [W]hether a party is provided a full and fair opportunity to litigate issues in the Court of Claims such that the rule requiring a mutuality of parties may be relaxed and [that appellee Joy L. Freeman] can be collaterally estopped from relitigating those issues in subsequent jury…