COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT

                           COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA

                                NO. 61151


                                      :
   EDGARD A. COLON                    :
                                      :       JOURNAL ENTRY
             Plaintiff-Appellee       :
                                      :            and
        -vs-                          :
                                      :          OPINION
                                      :
   SAFE SYSTEMS, INC. DBA RAMZE       :
                                      :
             Defendant-Appellant      :
                                      :




   DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT                    NOVEMBER 12, 1992
   OF DECISION:


   CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING:           Civil appeal from
                                      Parma Municipal Court
                                      Case No. 90-CVI-1847




   JUDGMENT:                          Dismissed.


   DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:            __________________________

   APPEARANCES:

   FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE:            FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT:

   EDGARD A. COLON, pro se            CHRISTI C. FARHAT, President
   3341 West 123rd Street             Safe Systems, Inc., dba Ramze
   Cleveland, Ohio  44111             8812 Orchard Avenue
                                      Cleveland, Ohio  44144



















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   PATRICIA A. BLACKMON, J.:
        This appeal is from a judgment  of the Parma Municipal Court

   against  Safe Systems,  Inc.  dba, Ramze     defendant-appellant,

   hereinafter the  Corporation    in  favor of  Edgard A.  Colon

   plaintiff-appellee, hereinafter Colon    in the amount of $481.45

   for  damages  to  Colon's  automobile  allegedly  caused  by  the

   Corporation's employees.  For  the reasons set forth below,  this

   appeal is dismissed.

        The  record  of  this  appeal  establishes that  Christi  C.

   Farhat, President of  the Corporation,  submitted and signed  the

   brief for the Corporation  and appeared at the oral  argument for

   the Corporation on  September 15,  1992.  At  the oral  argument,

   Christi C. Farhat  acknowledged that she  is not admitted to  the

   practice of law  in the  State of  Ohio and is  not an  attorney.

   Thus, the  question  is whether  the  Corporation may  appear  in

   propria  persona    in this  appeal  through  an  officer of  the

   Corporation who is not a licensed attorney?

        The  law  in Ohio  is  that  a  corporation cannot  maintain

   litigation  or  appear  in  court   through  an  officer  of  the

   corporation or an appointed agent not admitted to the practice of

   law.   A  corporation is  not in all  respects a  natural person;

   therefore, it may not represent itself in propria persona through

   an appropriated  agent who  is not  a licensed  attorney.   Union

   Savings Assn.  v. Home Owners Aid, Inc. (1970), 23 Ohio St.2d 60.

   (Held that R.C. 4705.01,  which prohibits the practice of  law by

   those   not   admitted   to  the   bar,   applies   to  officer's














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   representation  of  their  corporation).    See also,  Palmer  v.

   Westmeyer (1988), 48 Ohio App.3d 296.

                To allow a corporation to maintain litiga-
             tion  and  appear  in  court  represented  by
             corporate officers or  agents only would  lay
             open the  gates to  the practice  of law  for
             entry to  those corporate officers  or agents
             who have not  been qualified to  practice law
             and  who  are  not  amenable to  the  general
             discipline of the court.  Union Savings Assn.
             at 64.


        Consequently,  the  Corporation  cannot  maintain an  appeal

   through the representation of Ms. Farhat as its president.

        Appeal dismissed.











































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        It is ordered  that Appellee recover of  Appellant his costs

   herein taxed.

        A certified copy  of this entry shall constitute the mandate

   pursuant to Rule 27 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure.

   Exceptions.









   FRANCIS E. SWEENEY, P.J., and

   KRUPANSKY, J., CONCUR.




                                          PATRICIA A. BLACKMON
                                                 JUDGE






        N.B.  This  entry is made pursuant to the  third sentence of
   Rule 22(D),    Ohio Rules  of Appellate  Procedure.   This is  an
   announcement of  decision (see Rule 26).   Ten (10) days from the
   date hereof this document will be stamped to indicate journaliza-
   tion, at which time it will become  the judgment and order of the
   court and time period for review will begin to run.



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