State ex rel. Rouault v. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court

The issue raised in this cause is whether a writ of prohibition should issue. The conditions prerequisite to issuance of a writ of prohibition include:

“* * * (1) The court or officer against whom it is sought must be about to exercise a judicial or quasi-judicial power; (2) it must appear that the refusal of the writ would result in injury for which there is no adequate remedy; (3) the exercise of such power must amount to an unauthorized usurpation of judicial power.” State, ex rel. Northern Ohio Telephone Co., v. Winter (1970), 23 Ohio St. 2d 6, 8.

Since prohibition will not lie unless all…