State ex rel. Coyne v. Todia

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Respondents construe R.C. 1901.0211 and 1905.01 to permit a *233municipal court to divest a mayor’s court of jurisdiction by having a judge of the municipal court sit in the municipal corporation currently within the municipal court’s territorial jurisdiction. Relators contend that these statutes should not be so construed. We agree with relators and hereby grant a peremptory writ of prohibition prohibiting respondents from enforcing Rule 21 of the Berea Municipal Court and the journal entries made in connection with it. We also dismiss respondents’ counterclaims.

R.C. 1901.021 contains no…