City of Xenia v. State

Lazarus, Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Central State University (“CSU”), appeals from a judgment of the Ohio Court of Claims, awarding plaintiff-appellee, the city of Xenia, Ohio, $697,850.02.

Although CSU is not located in Xenia, Xenia provides CSU with water and sanitary sewer service. Xenia provides CSU with water pursuant to a written contract, which the parties first entered into on November 14, 1972. By it terms, the original water services contract expired on December 31, 1972, but has been automatically “extended” for successive one-year periods since that time. No written contract for…