State Ex Rel. Harris v. Common Pleas Court, Division of Probate & Juvenile

I concur in the judgment of dismissal of relator’s complaint for a writ of prohibition. The pivotal question urged by relator is this case is that, as a matter of law, the Juvenile Court lacks jurisdiction to enter the proposed order.

Relator urges that the Eoss County Common Pleas Court, juvenile division, is a court of limited jurisdiction in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred under E. C. 2151 and no presumption of jurisdiction is applicable as to a court of general jurisdiction. Support for this argument can be found in State, ex rel. Shonk, v. Crist, 114 Ohio App. 304, and State,…