Legal Opinion
Union Savings Ass'n v. Home Owners Aid, Inc.
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided September 16, 1970No. 69-345PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDuncan, J.
The record, briefs, and arguments of counsel raise the question: May a corporate litigant maintain a legal action in propria persona through an officer of the corporation who is not a licensed attorney? If a corporation cannot appear in propria persona through its officer, the order of the Court of Common Pleas, striking the corporate defendant’s petition to vacate judgment, was proper.
Appellant, Home Owners, contends that corporate statutes in E. C. Chapter 1701, in essence, either provide or imply that a corporation is the same as a natural person in all respects and has all the capacities…
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