Opinion
No. 70-114
Decided September 24, 1970.
Intoxicating liquor — Permittee's premises entered and literature seized by Liquor Control Commission — Prohibition not available to prevent — Pleading — Demurrer treated as motion to dismiss.
IN PROHIBITION.
ON DEMURRER to amended petition.
Messrs. Brownfield, Kosydar Yearling, Mr. Laurence E. Sturtz and Messrs. Hertz, Kates, Friedman Feldman, for relator.
Mr. Paul W. Brown, attorney general, and Mr. John A. Connor, II, for respondents.
Relator, a liquor permittee, seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent respondents, the Liquor Control Commission and the Director of the Department of Liquor Control, from entering his permit premises and seizing certain allegedly obscene publications which he has on his premises for sale. Respondents demurred to relator's amended petition.
Respondents have jurisdiction over relator's permit premises. Relator has available adequate remedies. Prohibition does not lie where there is an adquate remedy in the ordinary course of the law.
The Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure, which became effective July 1, 1970, abolish demurrers and are to govern pending actions, where feasible and no injustice would result. Accordingly, respondents' demurrer is treated as a motion to dismiss, and the motion is sustained.
Petition dismissed.
O'NIELL, C.J., LEACH, SCHNEIDER, HERBERT, DUNCAN, CORRIGAN and STERN, JJ., concur.
LEACH, J., of the Tenth Appellate District, sitting for MATTHIAS, J.