Woodruff v. Norvill

This matter comes to this court upon appeal on questions of law from the Court of Common Pleas of Hancock County, Ohio.

There is no hill of exceptions of the proceedings had in the trial court, and the appeal is submitted to this court upon the record in the Common Pleas Court, consisting of docket and journal entries, original pleadings, praecipes, summonses and the returns thereon.

The following facts, material to a decision of the case, appear from such record.

On June 7, 1949, Melvin Woodruff and 25 others filed their petition in the Common Pleas Court of Hancock County, Ohio, in the caption…