Levin v. Elyria Sign Co.

This case originated in the Court of Common Pleas of Lorain County.

Plaintiffs (appellees), Jacob Levin and Albert B. Ratner, trustees, filed a petition seeking damages, both actual and punitive, because of the removal by defendant (appellant), Elyria Sign Company, of two electric signs mounted on a building of the plaintiffs, and claimed by plaintiffs to be their property.

Defendant filed its answer which, in part, admitted that it had removed the signs, and further stated that such signs were not the property of plaintiffs but were, in fact, the property of Garfinkel Shoes, Inc. (a former…