In Re Removal of Pickering

This is an appeal by Lloyd Pickering from a judgment of the Probate Division of the Common Pleas Court of Logan County, Ohio, in a proceeding filed under the provisions of R. C. 733.72 et seq., for his removal from the position of Mayor of the village of Russells Point. The cause was tried without intervention of a jury. Though there were some fifteen specifications in the complaint of alleged misfeasance or malfeasance the probate judge concluded in his decision only that Pickering “failed to take precautions or exercise that care which due regard for others requires and his neglect resulted…