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These are the kind of feuds that make for a good made-for-television series.
Mike Martindale of the Detroit News reports that two Oakland County cousins made a fortune in real estate deals together over the past 60 years as owners of Hartman & Tyner Inc., a Southfield property management company that owns Hazel Park Raceway and other gaming interests.
But after one of them died last year, there’s been nothing but bad blood between their relatives, he writes.
The feud is now being played out in a lawsuit in Oakland County Circuit Court.
Martindale writes:
Herbert Tyner died at 84 in August after a long illness. His widow and their four children are claiming Tyner’s business partner, Bernard Hartman, has gone back on a deathbed pledge to take care of Tyner’s wife and keep Hartman & Tyner Inc. operations as usual.
Instead, according to the lawsuit filed May 5, the 84-year-old Hartman and a vice president, Daniel K. Adkins, are allegedly “lining their own pockets” with more than $1.5 million in pay raises and bonuses — with nothing going to the Tyners.