Cohen v. Lamko, Inc.

The issues raised by appellee Lamko, Inc. on appeal all deal with the sufficiency of the evidence adduced at the trial level to support the judgment of the court. 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 has been ruled on most recently by this court in Seasons Coal Co. v. Cleveland (1984), 10 Ohio St. 3d 77.

This court in Seasons was presented with a situation quite similar to the one in the case sub judice. The trial court entered judgment for Seasons Coal Co. against the city of Cleveland on a…