Butler v. Baker

Strausbaugh, Judge.

This is an appeal by defendants-appellants, Ohio State Home Services and Ever-Dry Waterproofing, from a jury verdict and judgment in the sum of $150,000 in favor of plaintiff in the common pleas court. The record indicates that on January 30, 1987, at approximately 6:05 p.m., while defendant Baker was operating a 1984 Ford F350 dump truck owned by defendant Ever-Dry Waterproofing of Columbus, Inc., a subsidiary of Ohio State Home Services, Inc., south on State Route 4, the truck slid on the snow- and ice-covered road, crossed the center line, sideswiped one vehicle and slid…