State Ex Rel. Bond v. City of Montgomery

This cause came on to be heard upon the appeal, the transcript of the docket, journal entries and original papers from the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, which also includes the memorandum of the amicus curiae, the assignment of error, the briefs and the arguments of counsel.

Relators-appellants, residents of the city of Montgomery, Ohio (“city”), appeal from the trial court’s order denying their application for a declaratory judgment 1 and for a peremptory or alternative writ of mandamus to compel the respondent-appellee, the Montgomery City Council, to certify an initiative…