STATE Ex SHELL, v. ABBOTT Et

OPINION

By OVERMYER, J.

This is an action in mandamus brought in Common Pleas Court by the state of Ohio on the relation of Howard S. Shell, a taxpayer of the village of Clyde, Ohio, against the village council, to compel it to enact an ordinance requiring the submission of a referendum to the voters of the village for their approval or rejection. The ordinance is known as “Ordinance No. 605” of that village. A copy of Ordinance No. 605 is attached to the petition and provides for the “altering, repairing, improving, enlarging and extending” of the "municipal electric light plant of the village…