Petrey v. Simon

This timely appeal follows the trial court’s granting of appellee’s Civ. R. 56 motion for summary judgment. The record reveals the path of this litigation to be long and complicated, with its genesis in an action initiated by appellee, Steven E. Simon, on behalf of his client Ruth Petrey, in the form of a motion to show cause filed on February 9, 1979, in the Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations, Butler County, Ohio. The motion to show cause stated that William Petrey, a.k.a. Chester Petrey, was in violation of that court’s divorce decree order to pay child support to Ruth…