Case ID: ohio-cc-dec_25/html/0477-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
    [Champaign (2nd) Court of Appeals,
    November 6, 1914.]
    Allread, Ferneding and Kunkle, JJ.
    Alvin J. Bring and John M. Saylor, as Agents v. John B. Hollis et al.
    Proceedings for Incorporation of Villages Political in Nature and not Subject to Review.
    Proceedings had by county commissioners with respect to the incorporation of a village are political in their nature and not judicial, and are therefore not subject to review on petition in error.
    
      Error.
    
      Beaton & Bodey and A. J. Bright, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Johnson & Miller, for defendants in error.
   ALLREAD, J.

The jurisdiction of county commissioners under Secs. 3517 G. C., et seq., providing for the incorporation of villages is in its nature political and not judicial. Musser v. Adair, 55 Ohio St. 466 [45 N. E. Rep. 903]; State v. Harmon, 31 Ohio St. 250.

An order of a board of commissioners in such proceedings 'dismissing the petition is not, therefore, subject to review upon petition in error.

Judgment affirmed.

Fernedimg and Kunkle, JJ., concur.