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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 716
    FEDERAL MORT. CO. v. LORAIN HOLDING CO. et
    Ohio Appeals, 8th Dist., Cuyahoga County
    No. 5422.
    June 23, 1924
    539. FIXTURES — Vault doors in a bank held to be part of realty and not removable as personal property.
    Attorneys — Austin and Kirkbride, for Mortgage Co.; A. H. Fiebach, for Safe and Lock Co.; all of Youngstown.
   PER CURIAM.

Epitomized Opinion

Published Only in Ohio Law Abstract

One, Thompson borrowed about $50,'000'and constructed a building to be used for a bank. Vaults were built in the basement and upon the first floor, and the York Safe & Lock Co. put doors and time locks on the vaults. The Federal Mortgage Finance Co., which loaned Thompson the money and held mortgages on the building, brought this action to have the property sold. The York Safe & Lock Co. claimed the right to take the vault doors off on the theory that they never became a part of the realty. The common Pleas decided that the doors were a part of the realty, and the case was carried on appeal! to the Court of Appeals which held:

The doors weighed tons and the evidence shows that at least one of the doors in order to be taken out, would have to be lowered to the basement, and the floor torn out. The doors were put there by the owner, were attached to and became a part of the building, and to permit the demolishing of the building, for the benefit of the Safe and Lock Co., would be without precedent in law. Decree for plaintiff.