Case ID: ohio-st-2d_56/html/0097-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Cxiriam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State, ex rel. Grimshaw, Pros. Atty., v. Atkins.
    (No. 78-918
    Decided November 15, 1978.)
    
      
      Mr. Lynn A. Grimshaw, prosecuting attorney, pro se..
    
    
      Richard L. Eisnaugle Go., L. P. A., and Mr. Richard L. Eisnaugle, for i’espondent.
   Per Cxiriam.

This court’s original jurisdiction in qua warranto cannot he limited by city charter. State, ex rel. Highland Heights, v. Kee (1975), 42 Ohio St. 2d 234, 235.

By removing himself from the Sixth Ward respondent, has forfeited his office pursuant to Section 3 of the Portsmouth city charter. The writ of quo warranto is allowed.

Writ allowed.

Leach, C. J., ITeRbebt, Celebrezze, W. Brown, P„ Brown, Sweeney and Locheb, JJ., concur.