Fairway Manor, Inc. v. Board of Commissioners

A municipally owned public utility is exempt from restriction or regulation by the General Assembly. Section 4, Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution; Swank v. Shiloh (1957), 166 Ohio St. 415, 2 O.O. 2d 401, 143 N.E. 2d 586, paragraph one of the syllabus. The degree of control which the courts will exert over such public utilities is *87strictly limited to protecting residents of the municipality from the imposition of rates which are unreasonable or which discriminate among such residents, taking into account their situation and classification. State, ex rel. Mt. Sinai Hosp., v. Hickey (1940), 137…