Case Name: Edbow, Inc., Appellee, v. Franklin County Board of Revision et al., Appellants
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1999-07-28
Citations: 86 Ohio St. 3d 1207
Docket Number: No. 98-1809
Parties: Edbow, Inc., Appellee, v. Franklin County Board of Revision et al., Appellants.
Judges: Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 86
Pages: 1207–1208

Head Matter:
Edbow, Inc., Appellee, v. Franklin County Board of Revision et al., Appellants.
[Cite as Edbow, Inc. v. Franklin Cty. Bd. of Revision (1999), 86 Ohio St.3d 1207.]
(No. 98-1809
Submitted May 25, 1999
Decided July 28, 1999.)
Todd W. Sleggs & Associates, Todd W. Sleggs and Susan K. Frenchr-Scaggs, for appellee.
Ron O’Brien, Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney, and Matthew H. Chafin, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellants Franklin County Auditor and Franklin County Board of Revision.
Teaford, Rich & Wheeler, Jeffrey A. Rich and James R. Gorry, Jr., for appellant Columbus City School District Board of Education.

Opinion:
On April 6, 1999, Edbow, Inc., appellee, filed a motion seeking reasonable expenses, attorney fees, and costs under S.CtPrac.R. XIY(5). In the motion, Edbow claims that we should impose a sanction on appellants for filing a frivolous appeal.
Upon consideration of this motion and appellants' memorandum contra, we find this appeal is not reasonably well grounded in fact or warranted by existing law and, therefore, is frivolous. See Edbow, Inc. v. Franklin Cty. Bd. of Revision (1999), 85 Ohio St.3d 656, 710 N.E.2d 1112. We hereby award reasonable attorney fees to appellee.
Upon reviewing the statement for services submitted by counsel for appellee, we reduce counsel's rate to $175 per hour and reduce counsel's billable time to 11.5 hours. Accordingly, we award attorney fees of $2,012.50 to appellee. We do not award any additional charges or travel expenses because counsel has not provided any documentation of such charges.
IT IS ORDERED by this court that appellants pay, as a sanction, $2,012.50 within thirty days of the date of this entry by certified check or money order made payable to Edbow, Inc.
Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.