Dir. of Highways v. Kleines

.O’Neill, C. J.

Appellant frames the issne in this appeal in a single proposition of law, as follows:

“Under Civil Rule 42(A), the Common Pleas Court has no discretion to consolidate appropriation cases filed under Chapter 5519, Revised Code, without the consent of both thé property owner and the state of Ohio. It is an abase of discretion for the trial conrt, without the consent of the Director of Highways, to consolidate four cases for trial involving four separate and distinct parcels of land and four separate and distinct property owners, even thpngh the property owners are in some sense…