Burchett v. Larkin

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a Scioto County Common Pleas Court judgment that ordered Steven L. Burchett and Jean Burchett, plaintiffs below and appellants herein, along with their attorney, James H. Banks, to pay attorney fees to Patricia Larkin and Unity One Home Health Care, defendants below and appellees herein.

{¶ 2} Appellants raise the following assignments of error:

FIRST ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR:

The trial court’s judgment that the claims of plaintiffs-appellants are frivolous because appellants were not the real party in interest, and the court’s award of attorney fees on that basis, is…