Ellis v. Ohio Turnpike Commission

This is an action in equity originating in the Court of Common Pleas of Lucas County, which is here appealed for the second time. The action was commenced by plaintiff-appellant, Cooley Ellis (hereafter referred to as Ellis), against defendant-appellee, Ohio Turnpike Commission (hereafter referred to as the commission), seeking injunctive relief to restrain the commission from proceeding with appropriation proceedings involving two fifty-acre tracts of land, property of Ellis, in Lucas County, one situated in the city of Maumee and the other in the cities of Toledo and Maumee.

In this appeal…