Board of Trustees v. City of Centerville

The threshold issue in this case is whether the trial court had subject-matter jurisdiction of the R.C. Chapter 2506 appeal filed by the Washington Township trustees from the allowance of a municipal petition for annexation pursuant to R.C. 709.16(B). For the reasons that follow, we answer such query in the negative.

Recently, this court stated in In re Annexation of 311.8434 Acres of Land (1992), 64 Ohio St.3d 581, 597 N.E.2d 460, syllabus, in the limited context of an individual landowners’ petition for annexation, that:

“Township trustees may appeal a board of county commissioners’ denial of…