Clinton v. Home Invest. Fund

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 4555

Syllabus

APPELLATE REVIEW/CIVIL – MOOTNESS – LIS PENDENS: Pursuant to A.P.W.O., Inc. v. Toebben, Ltd., 1st Dist. Hamilton No. C-920147, 1993 WL 323395 (Aug. 25, 1993), lis pendens terminates upon a final judgment in the trial court and the aggrieved party must seek a stay of judgment in order to reinvoke lis pendens on appeal. Where the appellant failed to obtain a stay for a summary judgment that quieted title of real property or post a supersedeas bond for an appeal of the summary judgment, and the subject property was sold during the pendency of appeal, the appeal is moot and must be dismissed.