
    The State ex rel. Cranfill, Appellant, v. The Odyssey Group, Inc.; Conrad, Admr., et al., Appellees.
    [Cite as State ex rel. Cranfill v. The Odyssey Group, Inc. (1999), 85 Ohio St.3d 149.]
    (No. 98-1159
    Submitted February 23, 1999
    Decided March 31, 1999.)
    
      Butkovich, Schimpf, Schimpf & Ginocchio Co., L.P.A., James A. Whittaker and Stephen P. Gast, for appellant.
    
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Miltina A. Gavia, 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., Douglas, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.

Resnick, J., dissents.

Alice Robie Resnick, J.,

dissenting. I would reverse the judgment of the court of appeals and grant the requested writ.  