Case Title: State ex rel. Graves v. Ney

Citation: 1999-Ohio-35

Docket Number: 19991214

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as State ex rel. Graves v. Ney, 87 Ohio St.3d 234, 1999-Ohio-35.] 
 
 
 
 
 
THE STATE EX REL. GRAVES, APPELLANT, v. NEY, JUDGE, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Graves v. Ney (1999), 87 Ohio St.3d 234.] 
Mandamus sought to compel common pleas court judge to answer relator’s 
motion filed in opposition to the state’s motion to dismiss — Dismissal of 
action affirmed, when. 
(No. 99-1214 – Submitted October 12, 1999 – Decided November 24, 1999.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County, No. C-990274. 
 
In April 1999, appellant, Gary Graves, filed a motion in the Court of 
Appeals for Hamilton County for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, 
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Arthur M. Ney, Jr., to “answer the 
Defendant’s motion filed in opposition to the State’s motion to dismiss” Graves’s 
postconviction-relief petition.  Judge Ney filed a motion to dismiss Graves’s 
action.  The court of appeals granted Judge Ney’s motion and dismissed the action. 
 
This cause is now before the court upon an appeal as of right. 
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Gary Graves, pro se. 
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Per Curiam.  We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.  Original 
actions for extraordinary relief like a writ of mandamus must be commenced by 
filing a complaint or petition rather than a motion.  See State ex rel. Brantley v. 
Ghee (1998), 83 Ohio St.3d 521, 522, 700 N.E.2d 1258, 1259. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.