STATE, EX REL. GILMORE v. BOARD

No. 33304.

160 Ohio St. 165 (1953)

THE STATE, EX REL. GILMORE, v. LORAIN COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided October 7, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Kuth & Meyers and Mr. W. D. Cole, for relator.

Mr. Paul J. Mikus, prosecuting attorney, Mr. James Christie and Mr. Harold, Ewing, for respondent.


TAFT, J.

Relator contends that, where a petition seeking detachment of an area from a village and its erection into a new township has been filed with a board of elections pursuant to Section 3577-1, General Code, it is not the duty of that board, in determining whether the petition "conforms to the requirements" of that statute, to determine whether the area seeking detachment is in fact contiguous to an adjoining township.

However, the words of the statute...

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