State Ex Rel. Hawley v. Industrial Commission

The'sole question to be decided is: May an action in mandamus against the Industrial Commission, as respondent, to compel it to hear, and allow a claim for compensation to the relator, injured in the course of his employment in Summit county, be maintained in the Court of Appeals of that county through service of summons on the respondent in Franklin county?

The relator contends that his cause of action in the instant case, or at least a part thereof, arose in Summit county and that as a consequence Section 11271, General Code, which he claims is a statute of jurisdiction as well as venue,…