State ex rel. Taft v. Campanella

Appellant asserts as his sole proposition of law that “the use of $10.6 million of county hospital-improvement 1st mortgage revenue bonds under Revised Code Chapter 140 to retire the outstanding debt of a hospital which is secured by a mortgage on the existing facilities exceeds the scope of a proper ‘public purpose’ under the Constitution of Ohio.”

In State, ex rel. Gordon, v. Rhodes (1951), 156 Ohio St. 81, this court considered, whether the use of revenue bonds to acquire and construct municipal off-street parking facilities constituted a public purpose. We emphasized that courts generally…