Johnson v. Industrial Commission of Ohio

IIeubkh'í, J.

The question before this court is whether the tria] court erred in submitting to the jury the interrogatory requested by defendant. The Court of Appeals held it to be “in the nature of a special verdict.”

Section 2315.14, Revised Code (Recodification Act of 1953), reads as follows:

“A special verdict is one by which the jury finds facts only as established by the evidence; and it must so present such facts, but not the evidence to prove them, that nothing remains for the court but to draw, from the facts found, conclusions of law. ’ ’

Section 2315.16, Revised Code (Recodification…