Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0013-04.html
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Author: {"author": "DAY, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 21
    No. 19401
    The State ex rel, Christopher Harrison, a Taxpayer, v. Myles E. Perry, as Coroner of Lorain County, Ohio.
    In Prohibition.
    1017. REMEDIES — To prevent abuse of discretion by coroner in his exercise of quasi judicial duties, remedy lies in injunction and not prohibition.
   DAY, J.

1. A writ of prohibition will not issue when a plain adequate remedy, either in law or in equity, is available to the applicant.

2. The duties of a coroner under the statutes are both ministerial and quasi judicial. To prevent an abuse of discretion in the exercise of the latter, the remedy is by way of injunction and not a writ of prohibition.

Writ denied.

Marshall, C. J., Jones, Matthias, Allen and Robinson, JJ., concur. Kinkade., not participating.