Welsh Development Co. v. Warren County Regional Planning Commission

{¶ 1} In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether a service of summons by a clerk of courts upon an administrative agency, together with a copy of a notice of appeal filed in the common pleas court, is sufficient to perfect an administrative appeal pursuant to R.C. 2505.04 if the agency receives the notice within the time prescribed by R.C. 2505.07. For the reasons stated below, we reaffirm and clarify our decision in Dudukovich v. Lorain Metro. Hous. Auth. (1979), 58 Ohio St.2d 202, 204, 12 O.O.3d 198, 389 N.E.2d 1113, by holding that an administrative appeal is perfected pursuant to R.C.…