Case Name: The State, ex rel. Barr, v. Deckebach, Auditor
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1922-05-16
Citations: 105 Ohio St. 643
Docket Number: No. 17487
Parties: The State, ex rel. Barr, v. Deckebach, Auditor.
Judges: Johnson, Hough, Wanamaker and Robinson, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 105
Pages: 643–643

Head Matter:
The State, ex rel. Barr, v. Deckebach, Auditor.
Constitutional law — Municipal corporations — Ordinance regulating public vehicles — Requiring surety company bond by licensee — Motor vehicles and taxicabs.
(No. 17487
Decided May 16, 1922.)
In Mandamus.
Mr. Rufus B. Hall, Jr., and Mr. Chas. C. Benedict, for relator.
Mr. Saul Zielowka, city solicitor, and Mr. Oliver M. Dock, assistant city solicitor, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
The court finds on the authority of State, ex rel., v. Robins, 71 Ohio St., 273, that the ordinance which requires the filing of the bond of a surety company for the purposes stated is invalid, and, therefore, overrules the demurrer of the defendant. And the defendant not desiring to plead further it is hereby ordered and adjudged that the writ prayed for in the petition be issued out of this court by the clerk thereof commanding the issuance of the license prayed for.
Writ allowed.
Johnson, Hough, Wanamaker and Robinson, JJ., concur.