Case ID: ohio-law-abs_3/html/0333-01.html
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Author: {"author": "MARSHALL, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 510
    No. 18925
    State ex rel Gettles v. Gillen.
    In Quo Warranto.
    865. OFFICE AND OFFICERS—Where mayor of municipality is elected to General Assembly, discharging duties of both offices, office of mayor not forfeited,.
   MARSHALL, C. J.

A mayor of a municipality who is elected to membership in the General Assembly, and qualifies and discharges the duties of such office, but nevertheless continues to serve as mayor and to discharge the duties of that office, does not by virtue of -Section 4 of Article 2 of the Constitution forfeit the office of mayor. The ineligibility relates to membership in the General Assembly.

Petition dismissed.

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