[Cite as Stockberger v. Henry, 196 Ohio App.3d 153, 2011-Ohio-1710.]




                                      COURT OF APPEALS
                                     KNOX COUNTY, OHIO
                                  FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT




STOCKBERGER ET AL.,                                  :      JUDGES:

                Appellees and Cross-Appellants,                :       Hon. W. Scott Gwin, P.J.
                                                            Hon. Sheila G. Farmer, J.
        v.                                           :      Hon. Patricia A. Delaney, J.

HENRY, ENGR.,                                        :       Case No. 10CA000018

                Appellant and Cross-Appellee.                     :    OPINION




CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING:                             Civil appeal from the Knox County Court
                                                     from Knox County Court Common Pleas,
                                                     Case No. 08OT02-0109

JUDGMENT:                                            Affirmed in part; Reversed in part and
                                                     Remanded

DATE OF JUDGMENT ENTRY:                              April 7, 2011

APPEARANCES:



Chester, Willcox & Saxbe, L.L.P., Gerhardt A. Gosnell II, and Charles R. Saxbe, for
appellees and cross-appellants.

Peck, Shaffer & Williams, L.L.P., and Thomas A. Luebbers, for appellees and cross-
appellants.


Luper, Neidenthal & Logan, Luther L. Liggett Jr., and Heather Logan Melick, for
appellant and cross-appellee.

Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn and Patrick A. Devine, for amicus curiae Ohio Contractors
Association.
Frederick A. Vierow, for amicus curiae County engineers Association of Ohio.



      GWIN, Presiding Judge.

      {¶1}    Defendant-appellant James L. Henry, in his capacity as the Knox County

engineer and cross-appellee, appeals a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of

Knox County, Ohio, entered in favor of appellees and cross-appellants Allen

Stockberger, Teresa Bemiller, and Roger Reed in their official capacities as members of

the Board of County commissioners of Knox County. Robert Wise, a former county

commissioner, was originally named in the case, but Mr. Reed, his successor, has been

substituted. In reviewing the legal issues involved, we have reviewed amicus curiae

briefs from the County engineers Association of Ohio and Ohio Contractors Association

in addition to the briefs of the engineer and the commissioners.

      {¶2}    The engineer assigns two errors for our review:

      {¶3}    “I. The trial court erred by failing to use an abuse-of-discretion standard as

the county engineer enjoys discretion to determine whether an expenditure is for a

‘highway purpose.’

      {¶4}    “II. The trial court erred by not dismissing this case on its face, as a matter

of law.”

      {¶5}    The commissioners assign a single error on cross-appeal:

      {¶6}    Cross-Assignment of Error

      {¶7}    “I. The trial court erred in denying plaintiffs’-cross appellants’ request for

injunctive relief.”
      {¶8}   The issue presented in this case is whether the Knox County engineer can

use funds restricted by the Ohio Constitution to highway purposes to pay his office’s

share of the cost of Knox County’s premium for a risk-sharing pool. The trial court

found the engineer could do so; we disagree.

                        The Constitutional and Statutory Basis

      {¶9}   R.C. 2744.081 provides:

      {¶10} “ Regardless of whether a political subdivision, under section 2744.08 of

the Revised Code, secures a policy or policies of liability insurance, establishes and

maintains a self-insurance program, or enters into an agreement for the joint

administration of a self-insurance program, the political subdivision may, pursuant to a

written agreement and to the extent that it considers necessary, join with other political

subdivisions in establishing and maintaining a joint self-insurance pool to provide for

the payment of judgments, settlement of claims, expense, loss, and damage that

arises, or is claimed to have arisen, from an act or omission of the political subdivision

or any of its employees in connection with a governmental or proprietary function and

to indemnify or hold harmless the subdivision's employees against such loss or

damage.”

      {¶11} Section 5(A), Article XII of the Ohio Constitution provides:

      {¶12} “No moneys derived from fees, excises, or license taxes relating to

registration, operation, or use of vehicles on public highways, or to fuels used for

propelling such vehicles, shall be expended for other than the cost of administering

such laws, statutory refunds and adjustments provided therein, payment of highways

obligations, cost for construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of public
highways and bridges and other statutory highway purposes, expense of state

enforcement of traffic laws, and expenditures authorized for hospitalization of indigent

persons injured in motor vehicle accidents on the public highway.”

      {¶13} R.C. 315.12 (A) states:

      {¶14} “[T]wo thirds of the cost of operation of the office of county engineer,

including the salaries of all of the employees and the cost of maintenance of such

office as provided by the annual appropriation made by the Board of County

commissioners for such purpose, shall be paid out of the county’s share of the fund

derived from the receipts from motor vehicle licenses, as distributed under Section

4501.04 of the Revised Code, and from the county’s share of the fund derived from the

motor vehicle fuel tax as distributed under Section 5735.27 of the Revised Code.”

      {¶15} We will refer to the restricted funds as MVGT funds.

      {¶16} R.C. 5543.01 states:

      {¶17} “(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the county engineer

shall have general charge of the following:

      {¶18} “(1) Construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, and repair

of all bridges and highways within the engineer's county, under the jurisdiction of the

board of county commissioners, except for those county roads the board places on

nonmaintained status pursuant to section 5541.05 of the Revised Code;

      {¶19} “(2) Construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement of roads by

boards of township trustees under sections 5571.01, 5571.06, 5571.07, 5571.15,

5573.01 to 5573.15, and 5575.02 to 5575.09 of the Revised Code;
      {¶20} “(3) Construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement of the

roads of a road district under section 5573.21 of the Revised Code.

      {¶21} “(B) For any particular project, after notifying the county engineer, the

board of township trustees of a township that has adopted a limited home rule

government under Chapter 504 of the Revised Code may hire an independent

professional engineer to be in charge of those activities listed in division (A)(2) of this

section.   The county engineer shall review all of the independent professional

engineer's plans for improvements and provide the board of township trustees with

comments on those plans within ten working days after receiving them. The county

engineer shall monitor all plans for improvements in order to maintain compliance with

existing construction standards and thoroughfare plans, and coordinate construction

timelines within the county.

      {¶22} “(C) The county engineer may not perform any duties in connection with

the repair, maintenance, or dragging of roads by boards of township trustees, except

that, upon the request of any board of township trustees, the county engineer shall

inspect any road designated by it and advise as to the best methods of repairing,

maintaining, or dragging that road.”

                                       Background Facts

      {¶23} Knox County participates in the County Risk Sharing Authority (“CORSA”).

CORSA provides general liability coverage, automobile liability coverage, errors-and-

omissions liability coverage, and property coverage for all Knox County officers. It also

provides law-enforcement liability coverage which applies only to the sheriff’s
department and correctional facility. The Knox County engineer’s office is included in

the coverage.

        {¶24} The county’s CORSA premium is determined by an actuary employed by

CORSA. It is based upon the exposure and loss experience of the individual counties,

but not specifically for each separate department of the county. “Loss experience”

involves claims made against the county in the previous five years, while “exposure”

refers to the risk of each member based upon property values, number of vehicles, and

payrolls for offices other than for the sheriff. CORSA encourages counties to seek

reimbursement to the general fund from such offices.

        {¶25} The commissioners presented evidence that they use a proportional

mathematical comparison, using only the exposure component of risk, to determine the

engineer’s share of the CORSA premium.          The court heard testimony from a

representative of CORSA, who described how the county’s premiums, and the

engineer’s share, were computed.      The CORSA representative testified that the

engineer’s departmental share did not reflect actual claims paid out on his office’s

behalf; the actuary computed only the county’s overall payout. There are not enough

claims per department from which the actuary could establish an accurate estimate or

rate for each department.

        {¶26} The CORSA premium for Knox County for 2007/2008 was $217,510,

which the commissioners paid out of the county’s general fund.        Thereafter, the

commissioners requested reimbursement from the engineer’s office and certain other

offices which receive a significant amount of funding from sources outside the general

fund.
     {¶27} In June 2007, the commissioners sent the engineer an invoice for

$19,789, the amount CORSA computed was the engineer’s share of the CORSA

premium for 2007-2008. The engineer refused to authorize payment of the invoice

from the MVGT funds.

     {¶28} In February 2007, one of the trucks in the engineer’s fleet, being operated

by an employee of the engineer’s office, overturned while plowing snow on a county

road, causing $13,138.16 in damage to the truck. CORSA’s agreement with the county

provided for a deductible of $2,500 per occurrence in the automobile-liability and

physical-damage coverage portion of the program. The commissioners paid for the

repair costs of the truck out of the general fund and were reimbursed by CORSA for

the repair costs minus the deductible. The commissioners invoiced the engineer for

the $2,500 deductible. The engineer refused payment of this invoice, although he

subsequently conceded that the deductible was directly related to a highway purpose

and could be paid from MVGT funds.

     {¶29} The County engineer argues that he is constitutionally restricted from

using MVGT funds to pay his office’s share of the CORSA premium for the county.

The commissioners, on the other hand, argue that maintaining CORSA coverage is

part of the cost of operating the office, and the engineer may pay his office’s share of

the premiums.

     {¶30} This dispute has been the subject of prior litigation. In Knox Cty. Bd. of

Commrs. v. Knox Cty. Engr., 109 Ohio St.3d 353, 2006-Ohio-2576 (“Knox I”), the Ohio

Supreme Court reviewed this same issue involving the years 2002-2003.               The

Supreme Court found that the Ohio Constitution restricted the use of MVGT funds to
highway purposes or purposes directly connected thereto. In Knox I, the Supreme

Court found that there was no evidence in the record showing that the payment of

CORSA premiums constitutes a highway purpose or is directly connected with

construction, maintenance, and repair of highways or the enforcement of traffic laws.

The Supreme Court cautioned, however, that if the record contained evidence that the

CORSA premiums pertained or directly related to highway purposes, or if the

engineer’s budget did not consist wholly of restricted funds, the outcome of the case

might not be the same. Id. at ¶ 11.

      {¶31} In the case at bar, the trial court reviewed testimony regarding whether the

CORSA premiums pertained to, or were directly related to, highway purposes, and

testimony regarding the engineer’s budget.             The trial court found that the

commissioners were entitled to a declaratory judgment that the CORSA costs were

directly connected to a highway purpose and that MVGT funds can be used to pay a

portion of the annual cost of premiums. The court also found that MVGT funds may be

used to reimburse the county for the deductible on the damage to the truck. However,

the trial court refused to issue a mandatory injunction ordering the engineer to pay the

allocated portion of the CORSA insurance costs.

                                                  II

      {¶32} In his second assignment of error, the engineer argues that the court

should have dismissed this action for three separate reasons: (1) res judicata, (2) lack

of standing, and (3) engineer’s lack of capacity to be sued.

      {¶33} The engineer argues that the matter is res judicata because the Supreme

Court has already reviewed the same issue in Knox I. We do not agree. Knox I
concerned a dispute for 2002-2003, while the case at bar deals with 2007-2008. In

Knox I, the Supreme Court based its decision solely on the fact there was no evidence

in the record that would support the commissioners’ argument that the payment of the

CORSA premiums was directly related to a highway purpose. The court specifically

stated that if the record were otherwise, the outcome could be different.

      {¶34} The doctrine of res judicata involves two concepts: (1) claim preclusion, or

estoppel by judgment, and (2) issue preclusion, or collateral estoppel.             Krahn v.

Kinney (1989), 43 Ohio St.3d 103, 107, 538 N.E.2d 1058, citing Whitehead v. Gen. Tel.

Co. (1969), 20 Ohio St.2d 108, 254 N.E.2d 10. The collateral-estoppel aspect of res

judicata “precludes the relitigation, in a second action, of an issue that has been

actually and necessarily litigated and determined in a prior action which was based on

a different cause of action.” (Emphasis sic.) Whitehead at 112. However, where a

change in the facts has occurred since a decision was rendered that raises a new

material issue or that would have been relevant in the earlier action, the doctrine of res

judicata will not bar litigation of that issue in a later action. State ex rel. Westchester v.

Bacon (1980), 61 Ohio St.2d 42, 399 N.E.2d 81, paragraph two of the syllabus.

      {¶35} We find that this action is not res judicata, because the Supreme Court’s

decision in Knox I was based solely on Civ.R. 56, governing summary judgment, and

the absence of evidence in the record, but did not address the question whether MVGT

funds may ever be used to pay CORSA premiums.

      {¶36} The engineer also argues that the commissioners lack standing and

capacity to sue. Standing refers to whether a plaintiff can demonstrate that he has

suffered or will suffer a specific injury that is traceable to the defendant’s challenged
action and that the injury is capable of judicial resolution. engineering Technicians

Assn. v. Ohio Dept. of Transp. (1991), 72 Ohio App.3d 106, 110-111, 593 N.E.2d 472.

An entity has standing when it has a personal stake in the outcome of the action.

Middletown v. Ferguson (1986), 25 Ohio St.3d 71, 75, 495 N.E.2d 380. The engineer

asserts that the commissioners cannot demonstrate that the county has suffered any

injury. We find, however, that if the CORSA premiums cannot be paid with MVGT

funds, then the money must come out of the county’s general fund. This is sufficient to

give the commissioners standing to bring this action.

      {¶37} Capacity to sue refers to whether the party can sue and be sued. The

engineer argues that the commissioners can sue and be sued pursuant to R.C. 305.12,

but that the Revised Code contains no provision for suits against the engineer’s office.

He states that the commissioners have a duty to defend his office and that the county

is thus suing itself. The commissioners reply that this is true as to matters relating to

liability to third parties, not internal disputes. A county has capacity to bring an action

against a county official. See, e.g., Montgomery Cty. Bd. of Commrs. v. Hensley,

Montgomery App. No.19754, 2003-Ohio-5730, where, as here, the board sought a

declaratory judgment regarding the authority of county court judges.

      {¶38} Declaratory actions are brought under R.C. 2721.03. It provides that “any

person whose rights, status, or other legal relations are affected by a constitutional

provision, [or] statute, ***may have determined any question of construction or validity

arising under the *** constitutional provision, [or] statute, ***and obtain a declaration of

rights, status, or other legal relations under it.”
      {¶39} We conclude that the trial court correctly overruled the motion to dismiss.

The commissioners have standing to bring the action, the engineer has capacity to be

sued, and the matter is not res judicata.

      {¶40} The second assignment of error is overruled.

                                               I

      {¶41} In his first assignment of error, the engineer argues that the trial court

erred in not applying an abuse-of-discretion standard to the engineer’s decision not to

pay the insurance premium. The engineer urges that he has the authority to determine

whether an expenditure is for highway purposes, and the court should not have

entered judgment for the commissioners without finding that he abused his discretion.

We do not agree.      However, we do agree that the trial court reached the wrong

decision based upon the record in the case.

      {¶42} The trial court’s amended judgment entry states that the engineer “cannot”

use MVGT funds, rather than “shall not” use MVGT funds.               The entry further

“authorizes” the engineer to make the payments rather than “ordering” him to do so.

This, coupled with the denial of the commissioners’ request for injunction, is the basis

of the engineer’s assertion that the trial court did not find that payment was mandatory,

but rather that he had discretion to determine whether to pay the premium and

deductibles.

      {¶43} The engineer argues that boards of county commissioners are creatures

of statute and have only such authority as is granted by statute or that can be fairly

implied from a statute. Geauga Cty. Bd. of Commrs. v. Munn Rd. Sand & Gravel

(1993), 67 Ohio St.3d 579, 621 N.E. 2d 696. The engineer asserts that he is an
independently elected public official charged with duties related to construction and

maintenance of public highways, bridges, and other facilities, pursuant to R.C. 315.08.

The engineer argues that the county commissioners have no general supervisory

authority over his actions if he is acting within his authority. He asserts that county

commissioners can appropriate funds to be used by the engineer, but they have no

authority to require the engineer to expend those funds.

      {¶44} The commissioners respond that the decision whether expenditure is

related to highway purposes sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the Ohio

Constitution is a legal determination for a court, and not a factual determination left to

the engineer’s discretion. The commissioners argue that several courts of appeals

have held that the decision whether a given action violates the Ohio Constitution

presents a question of law. See Andreyko v. Cincinnati, 153 Ohio App.3d 108, 2003-

Ohio-2759, out of the Fourth District; LTV Steel Co. v. Indus. Comm. (2000), 140 Ohio

App.3d 680, out of the Tenth District, and Fuchs v. Scripps Howard Broadcasting Co.,

170 Ohio App.3d 679, 2006-Ohio-5349, out of the First District. The commissioners

also note that in Knox I, the Ohio Supreme Court did not accord the engineer any

discretion in the decision whether to pay for CORSA premiums.

      {¶45} We agree that the issue is not a matter of discretion for the engineer’s

determination, but a mixed question of law and fact for the courts. Because the issue

presents a question of law, we review the matter de novo. Cleveland Elec. Illum. Co. v.

Pub. Util. Comm. (1996), 76 Ohio St.3d 521, 523, 668 N.E.2d 889.

      {¶46} Our analysis consists of two steps.         First, the commissioners must

demonstrate that the share of the cost of CORSA allocated to the engineer’s office is
accurate. Secondly, there is a separate issue of showing that participation in CORSA

is either directly related to highway purposes or to the operation of the office.

      {¶47} The trial court found that the formula for allocating health-insurance

premiums and workers’ compensation is the same formula used to apportion the

CORSA premiums among the departments. We agree that the commissioners proved

that CORSA’s computation of the engineer’s share of the premium is accurate.

However, for the reasons that follow, we find that the commissioners have not

established a nexus between the premium and highway purposes or the operation of

the engineer’s office.

      {¶48} The plain language of the statute gives us no guidelines regarding the

factors a court should use to determine whether there is sufficient nexus between the

activity or cost and a “highway purpose.” The Ohio Constitution sets out a list of uses

that are acceptable, but does not provide for insurance or risk sharing. It does

authorize use of MVGT funds to pay “highway obligations.” Likewise, R.C. 315.12

provides that MVGT funds can be used for salaries and operational costs.

      {¶49} In Knox I, 109 Ohio St.3d 353, 2006-Ohio-2576, the Supreme Court

directed our attention to Grandle v. Rhodes (1959), 169 Ohio St. 77, 157 N.E.2d 336:

“[W]e stated in [the Grandle] syllabus that ‘Section 5a, Article XII of the Constitution of

Ohio closely restricts the expenditure of the fees and taxes received in relation to

vehicles using the public highways to purposes directly connected with the

construction, maintenance and repair of highways and the enforcement of traffic laws *

* *.’ (Emphasis added.) There we held that the restricted funds could not be used to

pay fees of a taxpayer's lawyers who successfully sued to block the use of highway
funds for a preliminary study regarding the contemplated construction of a parking

garage underneath the statehouse.” Knox I at ¶ 10.

      {¶50} The court found that the engineer had conceded that the deductible for

repairs to the damaged truck could be paid with MVGT funds, because it was damaged

while being used for a highway purpose. We agree.

      {¶51} The trial court found that the engineer pays for health-insurance

premiums, travel to county engineer conferences and seminars, office supplies, copy

machines, printers, and utilities out of MVGT funds. The court cited Madden v. Bower

(1969), 20 Ohio St.2d 135, 254 N.E. 2d 357, wherein the Supreme Court found that if a

county employee receives the benefits of a group health-insurance plan procured by a

board of county commissioners, the part of the premium that is paid from public funds

is a part of the cost of the public service performed by each such employee. The

proportionate cost of premiums for county employees' group health-insurance plan paid

on behalf of employees of a county engineer who are engaged directly in work on

county roads is a part of the cost of services rendered by such employees and is

payable from the funds established by R.C. 315.10.

      {¶52} We find that Madden is distinguishable from the case at bar. Madden

dealt with health-insurance premiums. By contrast the CORSA risk-sharing pool is not

a part of the employee’s fringe benefits. CORSA is not insurance. R.C. 2744.08 clearly

differentiates between a risk-sharing pool and insurance. “A joint self-insurance pool is

not an insurance company.      Its operation does not constitute doing an insurance

business and is not subject to the insurance laws of this state.” R.C. 2744.081(E)(2).
      {¶53} In Knox I, 109 Ohio St.3d 353, the court referred to a footnote in Madden

that cautioned that the engineer’s budget will contain some expenditure for the

operation of the office that are nevertheless not related to the planning, construction,

improvement, or repair of roads, streets and highways.             The court set out a

nonexhaustive list of a county engineer’s duties that involve operations of the office,

but are unrelated to highway purposes. Those duties include supervision of surveying,

tax-map drafting, and assistance to the board in connection with improving waste-

disposal works, ditches, sanitary sewers, storm-drainage works, and sidewalks. Thus,

it is not sufficient to demonstrate that the expenditures are related to the operations of

the engineer’s office. The evidence must show that the expenditures are related to the

operations of the office that are related to highway purposes, not simply operations of

any office.

      {¶54} The engineer presented evidence that he engages in various activities

unrelated to highway purposes.        Those activities include sanitation engineering;

stormwater engineering pursuant to a contract between the commissioners and the

Soil and Water Conservation District, preparation of a district master plan for sanitation

and stormwater, administration of community block grants, advising and assisting the

county airport and fair, advising incorporated villages in the county, administering local

public-authority grants, and overseeing the inspection of county bike trails.

      {¶55} The parties’ Joint Exhibit 10 contains a breakdown of the definitions and

costs of the various coverages CORSA provides for the engineer’s office. It includes

property coverage, auto liability and physical damage, public-official liability, and

general liability, all showing the engineer’s share of the premium in percentages. It
expresses the percentage of the total county property, payroll, and vehicles and shows

the percentage attributable to the engineer’s office. It does not break the figures down

in such a way as to estimate how much of the engineer’s property and personnel

actually deal directly related to highway purposes. The CORSA representative testified

that it was CORSA’s position that the entire amount it had computed as the engineer’s

share of the premiums was for highway purposes.

      {¶56} The representative from CORSA acknowledged that the premiums were

prospective in nature; that is, the coverage the counties purchase is for possible future

payouts, not simply reimbursements for past payouts.

      {¶57} The county’s decision to participate in CORSA protects not only the

engineer’s office and employees but covers any office and employee of the county. If

another department suffers a loss but the engineer’s office does not, the share of the

premiums paid by the engineer in effect provides a benefit to persons and offices not

directly related to highway purposes.

      {¶58} The court found that there was no difference between the premiums for

health insurance and the cost for CORSA. We do not agree. We find that pursuant to

Madden, health insurance is directly related to highway purposes, but the record does

not establish sufficient nexus between CORSA and either a highway purpose or a cost

of operation.

      {¶59} In the trial court’s findings of fact, filed November 19, 2009, the court

found that the engineer’s account contains both MVGT funds and restricted funds,

some coming from federal projects or reimbursements from other county departments.

We find that fact to be irrelevant; how much of the commingled funds are MVGT funds
is ascertainable and identifiable. The engineer testified that he did place all the funds

he received into a single account but sought reimbursements from the other county

departments and from the commissioners for non-MVGT activities. The Knox I opinion

stated that if the engineer’s budget did not consist wholly of restricted funds, the

outcome of the case might be different. This implies that the engineer might be able to

utilize funds from other sources to reimburse the county. It does not mean that if the

engineer commingles the funds then he can use MVGT funds for nonhighway

purposes.

          {¶60} We agree with the trial court that the deductible for the repairs to the

engineer’s vehicle is related to a highway purpose and payable with MVGT funds.

          {¶61} We find that the commissioners did not present evidence establishing a

direct nexus between the invoice for the premiums and highway purposes or

operations of the engineer’s office. We conclude that the trial court utilized the proper

standard in analyzing the case but nevertheless reached an incorrect result.

          {¶62} The assignment of error is overruled in part as to the court’s finding the

deductible for the damage to the truck is payable from MVGT funds and sustained in

part as to its finding the engineer can pay his share of the premiums from MVGT funds.

                                           Cross-Appeal

          {¶63} We now turn to the cross-appeal. The commissioners argue that the court

should have issued a mandatory injunction directing the engineer to reimburse the

county for the CORSA premiums. They argue that a mandatory injunction is the proper

remedy to compel performance of a government official in conjunction with declaratory

relief.
      {¶64} An injunction is an extraordinary remedy appropriate only if the party

requesting it establishes two requirements. First, the party must show that a vested

right has been abridged, infringed upon, or eliminated. Secondly, the moving party

must also show by clear and convincing evidence that immediate and irrefutable harm

will result and no adequate remedy at law exists.

      {¶65} Because we find that the engineer could not constitutionally reimburse the

county with MVGT funds, it follows that the commissioners were not entitled to an

injunction directing the engineer to authorize the payments.

      {¶66} The assignment of error on cross-appeal is overruled.

      {¶67} For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of

Knox County, Ohio, is affirmed in part, as to the deductible for the damaged truck, and

reversed in part, and the cause is remanded to the court for further proceedings in

accord with law and consistent with this opinion.



                                                                Judgment accordingly.



      FARMER and DELANEY, JJ., concur.
