Spinks v. Equity Residential Briarwood Apartments

Opinion

McADAMS, J.

This appeal follows the entry of defense summary judgment. Defendants are the landlords of an apartment complex where plaintiff resided, under a lease entered into by her Ohio employer. The employer terminated plaintiff’s employment following an industrial injury, and then it directed defendants to change the locks on plaintiff’s apartment unit. They complied, thereby causing plaintiff to leave her residence. Plaintiff then instituted this litigation against the landlords alone. Asserting that she was an intended third party beneficiary of the lease, plaintiff alleged 12…