Case Name: Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. P. J. Coolahan and Elizabeth Coolahan
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1925
Citations: 3 Ohio Law Abs. 99
Docket Number: No. 18609
Parties: Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. P. J. Coolahan and Elizabeth Coolahan.
Judges: Jones, Matthias, Day, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 3
Pages: 99–99

Head Matter:
No. 161
No. 18609
Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. P. J. Coolahan and Elizabeth Coolahan.
Error to Wayne Appeals.
707. LEASES—Acknowledgement of by a notary or Justice, taken outside the his county, for/ lands so located, is null and void.

Opinion:
MARSHALL, C. J.
An acknowledgement of a lease taken by a notary public or justice of the peace at a place within the state and outside of the county in and for which such notary public or justice of the peace is commissioned, for lands located outside of such county, is null and void. Lessee of Moore v. Vance, 1 Ohio 1; Lessee of Kinsman v Loomis, 11 Ohio 475; Crumbaugh v. Kugler, 2 Ohio St., 374; Moore v. Lesee of Moore, 3 Ohio St., 154, distinguished.
Judgment affirmed.
Jones, Matthias, Day, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.