automatically invalidate that interest. If the grantor’s intent is clear, the interest is properly conveyed to the third person. (14-81A Powell on Real Property § 81A.05, attached as Ex. A, Doc. No. 19). The Defendants invite the Court to adopt this approach, whereby formalities in a deed’s rendition are subordinated to the intent of the grantor. The matter posed by the Defendants, of whether a deed’s reservation clause may be used to accomplish a transfer of an interest in property to a stranger to the deed, is a question of state law. In resolving questions of state law, this Court is bound to follow any applicable decision rendered by the highest court in the state, the Ohio Supreme Court. C & H Entertainment, Inc. v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court, 169 F.3d 1023, 1025 (6th Cir.1999) (<HOLDING>). In this matter, the Court is unaware, and the
holding federal courts are bound to follow intermediate state appellate court decisions unless there is persuasive evidence that the states highest court would rule otherwise holding that when applying state law a federal court is bound to follow the highest court in the state holding that a federal court sitting in diversity is bound to follow the law of the forum state holding federal courts are bound by state court determinations of state law holding that when applying state law this court follows the decision of the highest state court or in the absence of such a decision and any indication that the highest court would rule differently the decisions of the states intermediate courts