Court Opinion

ID: 3715183
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:48:26.733179+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:20:48.022393
License: Public Domain

{¶ 18} I concur. The practice of real estate law seems to have deteriorated. Both parties waited weeks to record a mortgage — thus neither was entitled to an equitable remedy. Both parties were asleep at the switch; but Fifth Third woke up sooner. Under the age-old legal maxim snoozeth-looseth,9 the first to awaken — and act — wins.
9 See Fifth Third Bank v. NCS Mtge. Lending Co.,168 Ohio App.3d 413, 2006-Ohio-571, 860 N.E.2d 785, at ¶ 1. *Page 1