Coleman v. Hoffman

After apartment-complex owners Brown and Clem defaulted on a loan, law firm and creditor Anderson Hunter (defendant) began paying the complex's utilities and repair costs and hired Craig Hoffman (defendant) to maintain the property, while OCI (defendant) merely collected and forwarded tenant rents to Anderson Hunter. Hoffman fired the existing manager upon his hire, and Roberta Coleman's (plaintiff) daughter was later injured by a faulty railing; Coleman sued all three as mortgagees in possession, and the trial court granted summary judgment to all defendants.