State Ex Rel. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Duffy

By the Court.

Relator is asking for a writ of prohibition to prohibit the Industrial Commission of the state of Ohio (1) from asking the Attorney General to collect the award made by the Industrial Commission against the relator; (2) from canceling the relator’s privilege of carrying its own insurance.

Now the proper function of the writ' of prohibition is to restrain inferior courts and tribunals from exceeding their jurisdiction.

The purpose of the writ is to prevent the exercise by a tribunal possessing judicial powers of -' jurisdiction over matters not within its cognizance, or to prevent…