DuBose v. Court of Common Pleas of Trumbull County

The writ of prohibition is an extraordinary remedy which is customarily granted with caution and restraint. It is a fundamental principle of Ohio law that the conditions which must exist to support the issuance of a writ of prohibition are, as recently stated in State, ex rel. Wall, v. Grossman (1980), 61 Ohio St. 2d 4:

“ ‘(1) The court or officer against whom it is sought must be about to exercise judicial or quasi-judicial power; (2) the exercise of such power must be unauthorized by law; and (3) it must appear that the refusal of the writ would result in injury for which there is no other…