Legal Opinion
Shear v. West American Insurance
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided June 20, 1984No. 83-1526PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Per curiam
I
The first issue presented is whether there was sufficient evidence presented to support the trial court’s determination that the West American insurance policy should be reformed to include Charles Shear as a named or designated insured on the grounds of mutual mistake. For the reasons that fpllow, this court holds that the court of appeals erred in reversing the trial court; the trial court’s judgment was not against the manifest weight of the evidence.
The authority of an appellate court to reverse the judgment of a trial court based solely on a question of the sufficiency of the evidence…
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