State Ex Rel. Barbuto v. Ohio Edison Co.

This is an action in quo warranto, commenced originally in this court by the state of Ohio, on the relation of the Prosecuting Attorney of Summit County, in which the state prays that the respondent, the Ohio Edison Company “be compelled to answer to the state authority, by what warrant it claims to use and enjoy the liberties, privileges and franchises” of certain public utility claimed rights, “and that it be ousted from using the same. ’ ’

The petition alleges that the respondent is an Ohio private corporation, operating a public utility, and engaged in the business of generating and…