State ex rel. Lakeview Local School District Board of Education v. Trumbull County Board of Commissioners

*201{¶ 1} This is an original action for a writ of mandamus to compel the distribution to a school board of certain federal mineral royalties received by a county from the state.

{¶ 2} The Mosquito Creek Flood Control Project (“Mosquito Creek”) is a 16,000-acre reservoir in Trumbull County, Ohio, which is maintained and administered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers under the authority of the Flood Control Act, Section 701 et seq., Title 33, U.S.Code. The federal government acquired land within Mosquito Creek for flood-control purposes under Section 701c-l, Title 33, U.S.Code in the…