Union Properties, Inc. v. Patterson

There is no doubt that the trial court had jurisdiction of the subject matter and that the proceedings were not void ab initio for want of -power to hear and determine. See State, ex rel. Young, v. Morrow, Judge, 131 Ohio St., 266, 278, 2 N. E. (2d), 595, and State, ex rel. Nolan, v. ClenDening, 93 Ohio St., 264, 112 N. E., 1029. Although- the trial court had full power to act, a jurisdictional phase was imparted to the judicial inquiry by the contention of the defendants that a conflict of jurisdiction between the trial court and the Probate Court prevented the relief prayed for. That…