STATE, EX REL. LYNCH v. CLEVELAND

No. 34451.

164 Ohio St. 437 (1956)

THE STATE, EX REL. LYNCH, v. CITY OF CLEVELAND ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided January 25, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John P. Butler, for relator.

Mr. Ralph S. Locher, director of law, Mr. Joseph H. Crowley and Mr. William T. McKnight, for respondents.


WEYGANDT, C. J.

Fortunately the operative facts are not in dispute.

Nor is this court concerned with the relative qualifications of the relator and Frank W. Story, the present appointee, or with the relative merits of the statutory and the charter methods of appointing a chief of police.

The sole question before the court is one of law. Did the people of the city of Cleveland possess the political power to amend their charter and choose their own method...

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