Wilmington Savs. Fund Soc., FSB v. Cordelia

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 5765

Syllabus

Foreclosure; summary judgment; genuine issue; magistrate's decision; objections; waived; court's province; manage docket; sovereign citizen arguments rejected. Judgment affirmed. The trial court's grant of summary judgment was proper in plaintiff-bank's foreclosure action. Sovereign citizen arguments, like the defendant's arguments in this case, have been repeatedly rejected by Ohio courts. We do not find that a genuine issue of material fact exists. The bank established that it is the holder of the note and mortgage, there has been a default, the bank properly accelerated the debt, and defendant is liable to it for the amount due on the loan. In addition, we do not find that defendant's argument was waived when he filed objections to the magistrate's order as opposed to the magistrate's decision because when the trial court adopted the magistrate's decision, it stated that it reviewed all of Williams's objections and specifically overruled them. It was within the trial court's province to manage its docket and review defendant's objections to the magistrate's order. As a result, we likewise reviewed the objections.