Chaney v. Breton Builder Co., Ltd.

Glasser, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Bowling Green Municipal Court, which found that appellant had “automatically and wrongfully” withheld a $25 carpet-cleaning fee from appellee’s apartment security deposit and ordered appellant to pay appellee statutory damages of $50 plus reasonable attorney fees of $340, interest, and court costs, as provided by R.C. 5321.16.

On appeal, appellant, Breton Builder Company, Ltd., sets forth the following three assignments of error:

“I. The Municipal Court improperly interpreted ORC [Chapter] 5321 and the standard [of] ‘normal wear and tear’…