Town of Lebanon v. Commissioners of Warren County
Ohio Supreme Court
Bill in Chancery. From Warren. Lebanon was laid out and a plat surveyed in September, 1802, the site then being in Hamilton county. The plat was acknowledged and recorded in October, 1803, after the county of Warren was created, including the town. Four lots (those now in controversy) were designated on the plat, “public ■ ground,” and as such are claimed to have vested in the county for the use of the town.
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Bill in Chancery. From Warren. Lebanon was laid out and a plat surveyed in September, 1802, the site then being in Hamilton county. The plat was acknowledged and recorded in October, 1803, after the county of Warren was created, including the town. Four lots (those now in controversy) were designated on the plat, “public ■ ground,” and as such are claimed to have vested in the county for the use of the town. In 1805, Lebanon was established the seat of justice of Warren county. In 1806, the commissioners of Warren county with consent of the town, erected a court house on one of the said lots,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lane, O. J.
The object of the bill is to prevent the ■commissioners of the county from selling or leasing certain lots in ^Lebanon, claimed to have been dedicated to the town, by its original proprietors, as a public square, and to secure them to their public use.
The town" of Lebanon was laid out by Corwin, Hathaway, and Hurin, in 1802, but the record of the plat was not made until 1803. •On the plat the lots in question are designated as “ public ground.” The registration of the plat, by the operation of the statute of 1800, 2 Ch. St. 291, vests the fee of the land set apart for…
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