Hadler v. Thompson
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[Cite as Hadler v. Thompson, 2018-Ohio-1072.] IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO TENTH APPELLATE DISTRICT Dorothea A. Hadler, : Plaintiff-Appellee, : v. : No. 17AP-578 (C.P.C. No. 14CVE11-11708) Russell Dennis Thompson, Jr. et al., : Defendants-Appellees, : (REGULAR CALENDAR) (Woods Cove III, LLC, : Defendant-Appellant). : D E C I S I O N Rendered on March 23, 2018 On brief: Bailey Cavalieri LLC, Nick V. Cavalieri and Matthew T. Schaeffer, for appellee Dorothea A. Hadler. Argued: Michael T. Schaeffer. On brief: Sandhu Law Group, LLC, David T. Brady and Brian S. Gozelanczyk, for appellant. Argued: Brian S. Gozelanczyk. APPEAL from the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas TYACK, J. {¶ 1} Woods Cove III, LLC, is appealing from the denial of its motion seeking partial relief from the judgment rendered against it. It assigns a single error for our review: The trial court erred as a matter of law and committed reversible error when it denied Appellant's Motion for Partial Relief From Judgment filed May 26, 2017. No. 17AP-578 2 {¶ 2} The trial court judge who handled this foreclosure action journalized a concise decision denying the relief sought by Woods Cove III, LLC: This matter is before this Court on Defendant's, Woods Cover [sic] III, LLC, Motion for Relief from Judgment, filed May 26, 2017. The Court will keep this simple. Defendant has not shown that it filed the present motion in a reasonable time, has not shown that it meets any section of Civ. R. 60(B) and has not shown that it possesses a meritorious defense. As such, Defendant's, Woods Cove III, LLC, motion is not welltaken, and is hereby DENIED. {¶ 3} The trial court's ruling heavily depends on the allegation that Woods Cove, after being served the foreclosure complaint, did not enter a formal appearance in the lawsuit. As a result, when the property was sold following the judgment of foreclosure, the property was sold free of the tax liens Woods Cove had bought. {¶ 4} Counsel for Dorothea Hadler also points out that the tax certificates purchased by Woods Cove had a provision that the tax certificates were to expire after four years and the four years had passed before Woods Cove filed its motion for relief from partial judgment. {¶ 5} After careful review of the record, we find that the trial court properly found that Woods Cove did not pursue relief from judgment within a reasonable time. We therefore overrule the sole assignment of error and affirm the judgment of the trial court. Judgment affirmed. DORRIAN and LUPER SCHUSTER, JJ., concur.
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