State ex rel. Shumaker v. Nichols

{¶ 1} This is an appeal in an action for a writ of prohibition to prevent respondent, Judge Robert D. Nichols, from “forcing” relator-appellant, Jacob Shumaker, to be a party to a trial in a case in which two separate actions have been consolidated. Shumaker was not named as a party in the first action to be filed, in which a married couple raised allegations of fraud and other claims against Residential Finance Corporation (“RFC”), which had brokered two refinancings of their residential mortgage. That action was consolidated with a foreclosure case that was filed later against the couple.…