Case ID: ohio-st_135/html/0577-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State, ex rel. Home Owners’ Loan Corp., v. Pontius, Treas., et al.
    (No. 27534
    Decided June 21, 1939.)
    
      
      Mr. James White Shochnessy and Miss Florence G. Denton, for relator.
    
      Mr. A. G. L. Barth elm eh, prosecuting attorney, for respondents, Fred C. Pontius, county treasurer, and Lester S. Lash, county auditor.
    
      Mr. Emmett D. Grayhill, for respondent, city of Massillon.
   By the Court.

Counsel for the county auditor and treasurer maintains that the relief sought-is, in effect, injunction to prevent the collection of delinquent sewer rentals and therefore mandamus will not lie.

“The writ must not be issued in a case where there is a plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law. * * *” Section 12287, General Code; State, ex rel. Methodist Book Concern, v. Guckenberger, Auditor, 133 Ohio St., 373, 14 N. E. (2d), 9.

Writ denied.

Weygandt, C. J., Day, Zimmerman, Williams, Myers, Matthias and Hart, JJ., concur.