[Cite as Hixson v. Callentine, 107 Ohio St.3d 1208, 2005-Ohio-6508.]




             HIXSON, APPELLANT, v. CALLENTINE ET AL.; WESTPORT
                          INSURANCE COMPANY, APPELLEE.
     [Cite as Hixson v. Callentine, 107 Ohio St.3d 1208, 2005-Ohio-6508.]
Certification of conflict dismissed as improvidently certified due to want of a
        conflict.
(No. 2005-0290 — Submitted October 12, 2005 — Decided December 28, 2005.)
                    CERTIFIED by the Court of Appeals for Athens County,
           No. 04CA4, 159 Ohio App.3d 146, 2004-Ohio-5943, 823 N.E.2d 459.
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        {¶ 1} The certification of conflict is dismissed, sua sponte, as having
been improvidently certified; there is a want of a conflict.
        MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’CONNOR,
O’DONNELL and LANZINGER, JJ., concur.
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        Steven G. Thomakos, L.L.C., and Steven G. Thomakos, for appellant.
        Ulmer & Bern, L.L.P., David L. Lester, and David L. Eidelberg; Schindel,
Farman & Lipsius, L.L.P., and Laurence J. Rabinovich, for appellee.
        Davis & Young and Richard M. Garner, urging affirmance for amicus
curiae, Avis Rent A Car System, Inc.
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