Gvozdanovic v. Woodford Corporation

Painter, Judge.

Ohio has no settled law concerning how a cooperative housing association should remove a tenant/shareholder when the shareholder has breached the lease. We attempt here to resolve the issue. In doing so, we have written rather more than is our custom, and stated the facts in more detail, because we believe it necessary in this unusual case.

This case involves the deteriorating relationship between a corporation and one of its shareholders under a cooperative housing arrangement. A cooperative is neither a freehold nor a condominium. It is a “multi-unit dwelling in which each…