Davis v. Royal Paper Stock Co., Inc.

Citations

• 201 N.E.3d 506
• 2022 Ohio 4135

Syllabus

Decedent died after semi-tractor impacted stationary trailer. Plaintiff appealed from summary judgment decision favoring defendants on negligence claim asserting that the trailer's defective landing legs and the defendants' negligence contributed to decedent's death. Plaintiff's experts opined that decedent's injuries were due to failure of trailer's landing legs. However, neither expert performed any testing on the landing legs. Both experts simply presumed that landing legs were structurally defective. Speculation and inference were insufficient to establish a genuine issue as to proximate cause.