Gevedon v. Decker

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 77

Syllabus

Business partner, appellant, brought suit against second partner and the second partner's wife, appellee, alleging that the second partner converted business property and used that property to open a competing business and renovate the couple's home. The trial court properly granted summary judgment to wife on appellant's civil conspiracy claim based on that conduct. The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to wife on conversion claim to the extent that there was evidence that her husband converted the property as a partner in and on behalf of the new competing business in which she was a partner. As to the second partner's other alleged acts of conversion, the trial court properly granted summary judgment to his wife on appellant's conversion claim. Judgment affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.