State Ex Rel. Graves v. Bernon

nicipal court of Cleveland; (2) said act contravenes various provisions of the Ohio Constitution and is violative of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution.

1. Section 1579-5, General Code, a section of the Cleveland Municipal Court Act (in existence prior to the act of 1931), provides that the Cleveland municipal judges shall be elected “in the manner provided by law for the election of judges of the court of common pleas.” It is argued that the legislative intention therein was to provide for the election of municipal judges in the manner common pleas judges were then elected,…