State Ex Rel. Ohio Stove Co. v. Coffinberry

In our consideration of this case, we are immediately confronted with respondents’ contention that this court is without jurisdiction because prohibition is not a proper remedy to review the regularity of the exercise of jurisdiction in the rendering of an order by the commission, where the order is an accomplished fact.

In the case of State, ex rel. Moss, v. Clair, 148 Ohio St., 642, this court held in the first paragraph of the syllabus:

“A writ of prohibition may be awarded only to prevent the unlawful usurpation of jurisdiction and does not lie to prevent the enforcement of a claimed…