Hess v. City of Toledo

Knepper, Presiding Judge.

This is an accelerated appeal from the judgment of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas awarding attorney fees in the amount of $54,583.75 in favor of appellees, Rebecca J. Hess, Marie Sienkowski, and Margaret Daly-Masternak, against the city of Toledo (“city”), and costs in the amount of $3,684.16.

This matter was previously before this court in Hess v. Toledo (1999), 133 Ohio App.3d 729, 729 N.E.2d 823. This matter originally arose as a result of appellees’ challenge of a Toledo city ordinance that rezoned certain property from residential to commercial. The…