State Ex Rel. Copland v. City of Toledo

By stipulation of the parties and with the consent of the court these two cases, involving similar facts and presenting the same questions of law, were argued and submitted together. They are actions in mandamus here on appeal on questions of law from the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas denying the writs and dismissing relators’ petitions.

The relators are each the owner of a tract of land in the city of Toledo adjoining and abutting upon a strip of land which is about ten miles in length and approximately 135 feet wide extending from Erie street in the city of Toledo to the village of…