Williams v. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

OPINION

By PHILLIPS, J.

Defendant, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, a self insurer under the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Ohio, demurred to plaintiff’s petition filed in the court of common pleas on the ground that plaintiff’s petition did not state a cause of action. The trial judge sustained defendant’s demurrer.

Plaintiff electing not to plead further in the court of common pleas appealed to this court on questions of law.

In his petition plaintiff claimed he was permanently and totally disabled as the direct and proximate result of an injury sustained on November 18, 1950, while in the…