State, Ex Rel. Duffy v. Lakefront Co.

This action in quo warranto is brought originally in this court under authority of Ohio, ex rel., v. Railway Co., 53 Ohio St. 189, 41 N.E. 205, and State, ex rel. Bettman, Atty.Genl., v. Miami Conservancy Dist., 125 Ohio St. 201,180 N.E. 893, as to the remedy. The Attorney General of Ohio as relator seeks to oust the respondent, Lake-front East Fifty-Fifth Street Corporation, from that portion of its property (known as the Black property) which lies between the existing shore line of Lake Erie and the shore line as it existed in 1898. In brief the relator claims that the land between those…