Sherman v. Pearson

Gorman, Presiding Judge.

This appeal presents a single issue: whether the personal-injury claim of the plaintiff-appellant, Adrienne Sherman, filed in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, was a compulsory counterclaim which she was required to assert in the Hamilton County Municipal Court in the landlord’s earlier action against her for forcible entry and detainer and rent. We hold that the common pleas court correctly held in its written decision that, under Civ.R. 13(A), Sherman’s personal injury claim was a compulsory counterclaim, and therefore summary judgment for the landlord was…