State Ex Rel. Hobart Mfg. Co. v. Blake

The relator claims that the respondents, under the facts, were without jurisdiction to make an order awarding compensation to Fischer for total disability based upon the occupational disease of silicosis when, as it claims, the undisputed facts show that silicosis was only one of several causes of total disability, and that for that reason its award was illegal and void. See State, ex rel. Yuska, v. Industrial Commission, 144 Ohio St., 187, 58 N. E. (2d), 214.

The function of the extraordinary remedy of prohibition is to prevent a judicial or quasi-judicial tribunal from assuming jurisdiction…