BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON v. RHIEL, Trustee.
Ohio Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtDeGenaro, J.
*558{¶ 1} This matter is before the court on the certification of two state-law questions from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the United States Court of Appeals. The panel asks whether a mortgage is invalid and unenforceable against the interest of a person who has initialed, signed, and acknowledged the mortgage agreement but who is not identified by name in the body of the agreement.
{¶ 2} For the reasons that follow, we hold that the failure to identify a signatory by name in the body of a mortgage agreement does not render the agreement unenforceable as a matter of law against that…
Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part.
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