Board of Trustees v. Lewis

The main issue in this case is whether township trustees and/or other disappointed parties may appeal the allowance of a landowners’ petition for annexation pursuant to R.C. Chapter 2506. For the reasons that follow, we answer such query in the negative.

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Statutory Remedies

R.C. Chapter 2506 Appeal vs. R.C. 709.07 Injunction

We decided in In re Petition to Annex 320 Acres to the Village of S. Lebanon (1992), 64 Ohio St.3d 585, 597 N.E.2d 463, paragraph one of the syllabus, a case heard the same day as the one at bar, that “R.C. 709.07 provides the exclusive remedy for persons who challenge a…