State ex rel. Drouhard v. Morrow County Board of Commissioners
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The Supreme Court denied a writ of prohibition to prevent the three members of a board of county commissioners from going forward with a show-cause hearing to consider the removal of a member of the board of trustees of the county hospital, holding that the commissioners did not patently and unambiguously lack jurisdiction to proceed with the show-cause hearing.
The Morrow County Board of Commissioners claimed that the authority to appoint and remove members of the Morrow County Hospital Board of Trustees was a five-member body, with each commissioner having one vote. Patrick Drouhard, the chairman of the Board of Trustees, claimed that the appointing authority was a three-member body, with the board of commissioners having a single collective vote and the other votes belonging to the judges of the Morrow County Court of Common Pleas. When the Commissioners sought to schedule a show-cause hearing to remove Drouhard as chairman of the Hospital Board Drouhard filed this complaint for a writ of prohibition. The Supreme Court denied the writ, holding (1) the three commissioners constitute the majority of the appointing authority that is empowered by law to remove a member of the county hospital board; and (2) Drouhard possessed an adequate remedy by way of an appeal following the show-cause hearing.
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