State Farm Insurance Companies v. Wood

Plaintiff-appellant, State Farm Insurance Companies (“State Farm”), appeals from the judgment of the Hamilton County Municipal Court granting the Civ. R. 12(B)(6) motion of defendant-appellee, James Wood (“appellee”), to dismiss State Farm’s complaint. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.

On August 25, 1987, State Farm filed a complaint against the appellee alleging, inter alia: (1) that the appel-lee owned an automobile that he permitted one Beverly J. Wood (“Wood”) to operate without proof of financial responsibility, as proscribed under R.C. 4509.101, and that…