St. Louis Bank v. Kohn
Decision Date | 02 May 2017 |
Docket Number | No. ED 104238,ED 104238 |
Citation | 517 S.W.3d 666 |
Parties | ST. LOUIS BANK f/b/o Gaol Holdings, LLC, Respondent, v. Michael E. KOHN, et al., Appellants. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Vincent D. Vogler Jr., Karl Walter Dickhaus, St. Louis, MO, for Appellants.
Leonard Komen, Chesterfield, MO, for Respondent.
Michael E. Kohn and Catherine K. Kohn(collectively, "the Kohns") appeal from the trial court's judgment granting a charging order and receiver requested by Gaol Holdings, LLC("Gaol"), which was assigned an interest in an $80,877.07 judgment taken by default against the Kohns by St. Louis Bank in 2009.We reverse and remand.
On June 24, 2009, St. Louis Bank took a default judgment for $80,877.07 against the Kohns, jointly and severally, which became a final judgment on July 24, 2009(hereinafter, "Judgment").The Judgment was silent as to post-judgment interest.St. Louis Bank assigned its interest in the Judgment to Gaol Holdings, LLC("Respondent") on February 18, 2015.Respondent filed the assignment of Judgment with the Circuit Court of St. Louis County on March 18, 2015.In an effort to collect on the Judgment, Respondent filed its "Verified Motion for Charging Order as to Defendants, [the Kohns]"(hereinafter "Motion for Charging Order") on June 30, 2015.1The Motion for Charging Order was verified by counsel for Respondent, Leonard Komen("Respondent's Counsel"), and was based upon, among other things, a calculation of interest at 9 percent, calculated on a monthly basis to $44,421.73, and a statement of probable interest of the Kohns in a number of entities, gleaned from either "pretrial discovery in this case, or discovery in other cases in which Michael Kohn or Catherine Kohn is a litigant, or by means of review of documents pertaining to the respective limited liability partnerships which discloses the Defendants' interest."Respondent's Counsel did not express a basis on which he had personal knowledge of any interest of the Kohns in any of the entities sought to be charged.2
Respondent's Counsel further stated only in his Motion for Charging Order that he has personal knowledge of the facts set forth and is the custodian of records for Respondent and the records of the plaintiff in the action in connection with the Judgment in this case.Personally maintaining the records of the company for the purposes of collection of the Judgment in this matter, Respondent's Counsel stated in the Motion for Charging Order that no payments had been received subsequent to June 24, 2009.Although Respondent's Counsel calculated interest based upon the principal amount of the judgment multiplied by 9 percent per year, and pro-rated therefrom to equal $44,421.73, Respondent's Counsel did not indicate his personal knowledge of an agreed upon interest rate or any other evidence as to how the rate of 9 percent was determined.
The Motion for Charging Order stated that it was brought pursuant to Section 358.280 RSMo. 20003(a provision of Missouri's Uniform Partnership Act) and Section 347.119, RSMo.(a provision of Missouri's Limited Liability Company Act).One of the entities listed as the Kohns' probable interest, Jilila, however, is a Missouri limited partnership and governed by Chapter 359, RSMo., the Missouri Limited Partnership Act.
On July 24, 2015, the trial court granted Respondent's Motion for Charging Order.4The trial court's Charging Order stated that Respondent's motion was granted in part pursuant to Section 358.280 as follows:
The trial court continued for a hearing Respondent's motion for the appointment of a receiver until August 7, 2015.
On July 13, 2015, the Kohns' counsel entered his appearance for Jilila for the limited purpose of quashing a deposition subpoena duces tecum directed to Douglass and Sabrina Holtzman(hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Holtzmans").After entering on a matter unrelated to Respondent's Motion for Charging Order, counsel for Jilila received, via the court's electronic filing system, the signed Charging Order entered on July 24, 2016.Jilila had no notice prior to this that its interests were subject to any action by the trial court, or that there was a request pending to have a receiver appointed over any interest in Jilila.
On August 5, 2015, the court denied Jilila's Motion to Quash the deposition subpoena directed to the Holtzmans.On August 7, 2015, the court held its hearing on Respondent's request for the appointment of a receiver.Both Jilila and Funny Bone Holdings, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company duly formed and in good standing with the Missouri Secretary of State (hereinafter "Funny Bone") appeared through counsel and argued against the appointment of a receiver under the Charging Order, asserting that the Judgment debtors had no interest in the entities charged and that the appointment of a receiver was not warranted.Respondent's Counsel, however, argued that the matter of the interests of the debtors in the charged entities was established by virtue of the entry of the Charging Order on July 24, 2015, and that the entities to be charged were estopped from re-litigating those issues.Respondent further argued that a receiver was appropriate under Section 358.280, RSMo., and restated that this statute was the basis for the appointment.Respondent's Counsel also admitted that the Charging Order was obtained without notice and claimed that similar to a garnishment, no notice was required.
At the hearing, the trial court granted Respondent's Counsel seven days to draft and file its proposed order, due August 14, 2015, and granted counsel for Jilila and Funny Bone seven days after Respondent's submission in which to file their response.Prior to the deadline for filing Respondent's proposed order, Respondent's Counsel contacted counsel for Jilila and requested until Monday, August 17, 2017, in which to file their proposed order.Jilila consented and, in return, Jilila could file its proposed order seven days later, on August 24, 2015.On August 24, 2015, prior to the submission of Jilila's proposed order, the trial court granted Respondent's application for the appointment of a receiver pursuant to the July 24, 2015 Charging Order, but did not denominate that Order a "judgment" pursuant to Rule 75.01(a).The Kohns timely filed their Notice of Appeal, which was dismissed by this Court pursuant to Rule 75.01(a), and the matter was returned to the trial court for denomination of the Order as a judgment.
On March 30, 2016, the trial court re-issued the Order Appointing Receiver, denominating it an Order and Judgment Appointing Receiver, in compliance with the requirements of Rule 75.01(a).This appeal timely followed.
As a preliminary matter, this Court issued an order directing the Kohns to file a memorandum addressing whether the Judgment in question is appealable under Section 512.020, and in particular, Section 512.020(2), which allows an interlocutory appeal from an order "refusing to revoke, modify, or change an interlocutory order appointing a receiver ...."The Kohns assert the Judgment in question is appealable under Section 512.020(5), which allows an appeal from a special order after final judgment, arguing that the statute only applies to interlocutory orders prior to final judgment.The Kohns contend this judgment is not an interlocutory order, but instead, there was a final judgment and this current litigation involves a post-judgment receivership process.They argue the statutory basis for the appeal is Section 512.020(5) because the order appealed from constitutes "any special order after final judgment in the cause" rather than an interlocutory order pending resolution of the matter pending before the trial court.
"The right to appeal is purely statutory and, where a statute does not give a right to appeal, no right exists."State ex rel. Coca-Cola Co. v. Nixon , 249 S.W.3d 855, 859(Mo. banc 2008)(quoting Riverside—Quindaro Bend Levee Dist. v. Intercont'l Eng'g Mfg. , 121 S.W.3d 531, 532(Mo. banc 2003), and citing Rule 81.01).An order appointing a receiver, and directing the delivery to him of property in suit, pending litigation for an accounting with respect to that property, was held not appealable, in the absence of a statute authorizing such an appeal, in Greeley v. Missouri P. R. Co. , 123 Mo. 157, 27 S.W. 613, 615(1894).The Greeley court stated:
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