217 Williams, L.L.C. v. Worthen

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 2559

Syllabus

CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS — ATTORNEY FEES: The trial court did not err in awarding attorney fees to plaintiff landlord against defendant tenant's attorney under R.C. 2323.51(A)(2)(a)(i) in an eviction action, where the court's finding that the attorney had engaged in frivolous conduct by protracting the proceedings for the obvious purpose of unnecessarily delaying defendant's eviction was supported by the facts and the law, as the record demonstrated that the objections the attorney had filed to a magistrate's order setting a bond amount lacked any basis in law and were not filed in accordance with the local rules, and the disability-based discrimination claim the attorney filed against plaintiff lacked an evidentiary basis, and that this conduct was undertaken for the stated purpose of delaying the eviction.