Lehtinen v. Drs. Lehtinen, Mervart & West, Inc.

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from the reversal of a summary judgment that barred an executor who was not a member of the decedent’s profession from acquiring the decedent’s shares in a professional association.

{¶ 2} In 1996, David E. Lehtinen, M.D., and defendants-appellants Michael Mervart, M.D., and Michael West, M.D., all of whom were neurosurgeons, organized as a professional association under the name of Drs. Lehtinen, Mervart and West, Inc. (“Association”). The parties agree that the Association, also an appellant, was organized under the Professional Association Act, R.C. Chapter 1785, for…