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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Krooss, Appellant, v. Murray, Judge, Appellee.
    [Cite as Krooss v. Murray, 123 Ohio St.3d 85, 2009-Ohio-4051.]
    (No. 2009-0449
    Submitted August 11, 2009
    Decided August 18, 2009.)
    Herbert Creech, for appellant.
    Ronald C. Lewis, Xenia Law Director, for appellee.
   Per Curiam.

{¶ 1} We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals dismissing the petition of appellant, Paul Krooss, for a writ of prohibition to prevent appellee, Xenia Municipal Court Judge Michael Murray, from proceeding in a case involving Krooss. Contrary to appellant’s assertions, Judge Murray does not patently and unambiguously lack jurisdiction over the underlying case, because the case has a territorial connection to the municipal court. See Cheap Escape Co., Inc. v. Haddox, L.L.C., 120 Ohio St.3d 493, 2008-Ohio-6323, 900 N.E.2d 601, syllabus. Absent a patent and unambiguous lack of jurisdiction, Krooss has an adequate remedy by appeal to raise his jurisdictional claim. State ex rel. Plant v. Cosgrove, 119 Ohio St.3d 264, 2008-Ohio-3838, 893 N.E.2d 485, ¶ 5.

Judgment affirmed.

Moyer, C.J., and Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor, O’Donnell, Lanzinger, and Cupp, JJ., concur.