Mitchell Family Trust Fund v. Cole

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 742

Syllabus

Summary judgment; third-party claims; Civ.R. 14(A); transaction or occurrence; derivative; primary claims; vacated; moot. Vacated the trial court's decision granting the third-party defendant's motion for summary judgment and remanded the matter with instructions for the trial court to issue a journal entry deeming the third-party claims moot and the motion for summary judgment on those claims moot. Once summary judgment was rendered in favor of the third-party plaintiff on the primary claims asserted against it, the third-party claims, which were derivative claims, were implicitly rendered moot.