Doss v. Doss

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 1339

Syllabus

The trial court abused its discretion in denying appellant's motion for a new trial, as the court provided incorrect legal reasoning for its decision. On remand, the court will need to reconsider the motion. In addition, as a successor judge, the judge should review the trial transcripts, since manifest weight challenges were included in the motion for new trial. Given our reversal of the judgment denying the motion for new trial, challenges to the divorce decree are not yet ripe for review. After the trial court enters a new judgment on remand, the parties will be entitled to appeal the divorce decree, as well as the new trial decision, to the extent that those judgments are adverse to them. The judgment denying the motion for new trial is reversed and remanded. The appeal from the divorce decree is dismissed because the issues raised therein are not yet ripe for review.