Cole v. Ottawa Home & Savings Ass'n

The important issues raised by these two cases are identical, viz.:

1. Who are to be considered as proper parties to a hearing upon exceptions to an inventory filed pursuant to Section 2115.16, Revised Code?

2. Is the summary procedure provided for under Section 2115.16, Revised Code, a proper proceeding in which title to assets may be determined, and, if it is, is that determination subject to attack in a subsequent action by a person not a party to the original hearing in Probate Court?

Section 2101.24(C), Revised Code, grants jurisdiction to the Probate Court “to direct and control the…