
    Cox, Exr., Appellant, v. Ohio State University Hospitals, Appellee.
    [Cite as Cox v. Ohio State Univ. Hosp. (1997), 80 Ohio St.3d 1220.]
    (No. 96-2335
    Submitted November 4, 1997
    Decided December 24, 1997.)
    
      Spero & Rosenfield Co., L.P.A., and Keith E. Spero, for appellant.
    
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General; Emens Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter, William J. Brown and Karl W. Schedler, for appellee.
    
      
      Bricker & Eckler, James J. Hughes, Jr., and Catherine M. Ballard, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, OHA: The Association for Hospitals and Health Systems.
   The appeal is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.

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

Douglas, J., dissents.

F.E. Sweeney, J., dissents and would reverse the judgment of the court of appeals.

Cook, J., dissents.

Cook, J.,

dissenting. I would affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.  