Carroll M. “Trip” Redford III received his law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1991 and joined the firm that year. Trip practices in a wide variety of litigation areas in state and federal courts, including commercial, construction, real estate, employment, equine and estate law. Trip has been active in the Kentucky Bar Association over the years and previously served as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing for the UK College of Law, and more recently as Chair of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Legislative Committee.
ANDOVER GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB LITIGATION: A flurry of litigation commenced April 2017 involving the foreclosure by Whitaker Bank of the Andover Golf Course property which includes the clubhouse and pool. With the Andover entity apparently “handing over” the property to Whitaker in February 2017, Whitaker filed a foreclosure action...
The Behr entities filed an action against seeking an immediate injunction to validate its trespass through another business property. The trial court denied the request and granted the property owner’s request by cross motion for injunction prohibiting the trespass. Behr appealed the temporary injunction to the Court of Appeals under...
On June 5, 2017, the trial court issued an opinion and order and granted summary judgment to the landlord over a lease dispute and amounts owed by the tenant. The ruling included recovery of attorneys’ fees under KRS 383.660 due to the willful breach of the lease. Read the ruling....
Former owner of real property sued to void the deed of conveyance from almost five (5) years earlier alleging that his and his wife’s signatures were forged. In deposition testimony both former owner and wife confirmed signatures were not forged on deed. Trial court granted summary judgment to current owner...
The Court of Appeals by Opinion issued March 24, 2017, held that the Garrard Circuit Court erred in holding that deed restrictions prohibited short-term rentals of residences. The circuit court’s had held that inhabitants of short-term rentals of residential property were not “residents” and therefore the use of the property...
In a March 3, 2017, opinion to-be-published issued by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the Court held that the standard of review when addressing appeals involving the interpretation of trial court orders, the reviewing court is to give deference to the trial court’s interpretation of its own orders. The case...
Former owner of real property sued to void the deed of conveyance from almost five (5) years earlier alleging that his and his wife’s signatures were forged. In deposition testimony both former owner and wife confirmed signatures were not forged on deed. Trial court granted summary judgment to current owner...
In Higgins, et al. v. BAC Home Loans, et al., a case filed in the Fayette Circuit Court, Higgins and other property owners sought statutory damages under KRS 382.360 for the failure of their mortgage holders to file an assignment of them mortgages in the county clerk’s office. The promissory...
Parents who never married presented an issue of whether a trial court’s order directing and authorizing one parent to obtain a passport for their minor child was an enforceable order. The mother argued that the order was a modification of the custody decree without proper findings of fact and conclusions...
In a case that traversed from trial court, to court of appeals, back to the trial court, back to the court of appeals and then to supreme court, Kentucky’s highest court changed the law on noncompetition agreements and the consideration required for an enforceable restrictive covenant. Company sued former employee...
