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

No. 829
    LEACH v. XENIA (City)
    No. 19971.
    Supreme Court
    On motion to certify.
    Dock. July 13, 1926;
    4 Abs. 493.
    797. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS — May a cify charter constitutionally authorize the appointment of a Police Judge by the city commission ?
    Attorneys — F. L. Johnson for Leach; J. A. F nmy xor City; bolh’of Xenia.
   Eva Leach brought this action originally in the Greene Common Pleas against the city of Xenia to recover back a fine paid which was assessed by a Police Judge in said city.

It appears that the charter of the city provided for the appointment of a Police Judge who was to have the authority, jurisdiction, and powers of a mayor of other municipalities.

The judgment of the Common Pleas in susta'nin *' a demurrer to the petition was affi.med by the Court of Appeals.

Leach in the Supreme Court contends: that ihe provision of the charter providing for the appointment of a Police Judge was unconstitutional and therefore void and that the city commission therefore had no authority to appoint a police judge and that the acts of the Poiice Judge were of no effect.