BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON v. RHIEL, Trustee.

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 5087
• 122 N.E.3d 1219
• 155 Ohio St. 3d 558

Syllabus

Certified questions of state law—The failure to identify a signatory by name in the body of a mortgage agreement does not render the agreement unenforceable again that signatory—A person who is not identified in the body of a mortgage but who signed and initialed the mortgage mortgages his interest in the property when the mortgage as a whole evinces an intent to be bound by the signature.