
    The State ex rel. Thomas, Appellant, v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, Appellee.
    [Cite as State ex rel. Thomas v. Indus. Comm. (1999), 84 Ohio St.3d 370.]
    (No. 98-870
    Submitted November 10, 1998
    Decided January 20, 1999.)
    
      Law Office of Thomas Tootle and Thomas Tootle, for appellant.
    
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Jon D. Grandon, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
   The judgment of the court of appeals is affirmed consistent with the opinion of the court of appeals.

Moyer, C.J., Resnick, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.

Douglas, J.,

dissents and would order relief consistent with State ex rel. Gay v. Mihm (1994), 68 Ohio St.3d 315, 626 N.E.2d 666.

F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., dissent and would reverse the judgment of the court of appeals.  