# State ex rel. Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc. v. Kiroff

> Ohio Supreme Court · June 16, 1976 · 46 Ohio St. 2d 397

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6755807

## Case

- **Full name:** The State, ex rel. Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc. v. Kiroff, Judge
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** June 16, 1976
- **Citations:** 46 Ohio St. 2d 397; 75 Ohio Op. 2d 461; 348 N.E.2d 705; 1976 Ohio LEXIS 653
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Brown, Celebrezze, Corrigan, Herbert, Neill, Stern
- **Cited by:** 7 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Per Curiam.
The principal question presented is whether a Court of Common Pleas has jurisdiction to consider the lawfulness of rates being charged by a public utility.
R. C. 4903.12 states “UCo court other than the Supreme Court shall have power to review, suspend or delay any order made by the Public Utilities Commission * *
In State, ex rel. Northern Ohio Telephone Co., v. Winter (1970), 23 Ohio St. 2d 6 , this court stated in the first paragraph of the syllabus that “ [t]he General Assembly, by the enactment of statutory provisions requiring a public utility to file and adhere to rate schedules, * * * has lodged exclusive jurisdiction in such matters in the Public Utilities Commission, subject to review by the Supreme Court. ’ ’
There being an unauthorized assumption of judicial authority by the respondents, as judges of their respective Common Pleas Courts, for which no adequate remedy at law is shown, a writ of prohibition will issue as requested by relator.
Writ allowed.
O’Neill, C. J., Herbert, Corrigan, Stern, Celebrezze, W. Brown and P. Brown, JJ., concur.

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