
    Blodgett et al., Appellants, v. Kahn et al.: Lima Memorial Hospital, Appellee.
    [Cite as Blodgett v. Kahn (1997), 78 Ohio St.3d 1226.]
    (No. 96-757
    Submitted April 15, 1997
    Decided June 4, 1997.)
    
      Williams, Jilek, Lafferty & Gallagher Co., L.P.A, Martin W. Williams and Peter O. DeClark, for appellants.
    
      Robison, Curphey & O’Connell and E. Thomas Maguire, for appellee.
    
      Leeseberg, Maloon, Schulman & Valentine and Jeffrey L. Maloon, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.
    
      Elsass, Wallace, Evans, Schnelle & Co., L.P.A, and Stanley R. Evans, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Hospital Association.
   The appeal is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.

Moyer, C.J., Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.

Douglas, J., dissents.  