Case Name: HICKMAN et v. XENIA (City)
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1926-07-28
Citations: 4 Ohio Law Abs. 721
Docket Number: Nos. 20014-16
Parties: HICKMAN et v. XENIA (City)
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 4
Pages: 721–721

Head Matter:
HICKMAN et v. XENIA (City)
Nos. 20014-16.
Supreme Court
Dock. July 28, 1926;
4 Abs. 525.
Attorneys — F. L. Johnson for Hickman et; J. A. Finney for City; both of Xenia.

Opinion:
Jennie Hickman, Louis Overstreet and John Allen brought these actions 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 sustaining a demurrer to Hickman's petition was aifirmed by the Court of Appeals.
Hickman et in the Supreme Court contends: that the 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 said Police Judge were of no effect.