Case Name: The State, ex rel. Home Owners' Loan Corp., v. Pontius, Treas., et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1939-06-21
Citations: 135 Ohio St. 577
Docket Number: No. 27534
Parties: The State, ex rel. Home Owners’ Loan Corp., v. Pontius, Treas., et al.
Judges: Weygandt, C. J., Day, Zimmerman, Williams, Myers, Matthias and Hart, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 135
Pages: 577–579

Head Matter:
The State, ex rel. Home Owners’ Loan Corp., v. Pontius, Treas., et al.
(No. 27534
Decided June 21, 1939.)
Mr. James White Shochnessy and Miss Florence G. Denton, for relator.
Mr. A. G. L. Barth elm eh, prosecuting attorney, for respondents, Fred C. Pontius, county treasurer, and Lester S. Lash, county auditor.
Mr. Emmett D. Grayhill, for respondent, city of Massillon.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Counsel for the county auditor and treasurer maintains that the relief sought-is, in effect, injunction to prevent the collection of delinquent sewer rentals and therefore mandamus will not lie.
"The writ must not be issued in a case where there is a plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law. " Section 12287, General Code; State, ex rel. Methodist Book Concern, v. Guckenberger, Auditor, 133 Ohio St., 373, 14 N. E. (2d), 9.
Writ denied.
Weygandt, C. J., Day, Zimmerman, Williams, Myers, Matthias and Hart, JJ., concur.