Peachtree Apartments v. Pallo

LAWRENCE E. MOONEY, Judge.

The defendant, Norman Pallo (“the tenant”), and his counsel appeal from the judgment entered by the Circuit Court of St. Louis County purporting to award attorney’s fees to counsel for the plaintiff, Peachtree Apartments (“the landlord”), as a sanction because the tenant filed a motion to quash execution. We conclude that the trial court was without jurisdiction to enter its judgment sanctioning the tenant’s counsel because the tenant withdrew his motion as moot before the motion for sanctions was even filed. Thus, the trial court lost jurisdiction to enter any…