Commonwealth Cas. Ins. Co. v. Small

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 184

Syllabus

Judgment affirmed. Because defendants did not respond to plaintiffs' requests for admissions, the trial court appropriately relied on the defaulted admissions to grant plaintiffs summary judgment on their claims for negligence and imputed negligence. The trial court could have construed defendants' response to plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment as an implicit motion to withdraw the defaulted admissions, but the trial court did not abuse its discretion by failing to so construe the response. The trial court's ruling on plaintiffs' claims for negligence and imputed negligence rendered plaintiffs' claim for negligent entrustment moot.