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...son to have it levied and assessed, the court may issue a special order to the auditor commanding him to levy and assess upon the taxable property of the county, township, or municipal corporation the taxes required by law, or by the judgment or order of such court, to be levied and assessed for such purposes, and to place such taxes upon the duplicate for collection by the county treasurer.

...ecution as if he were an officer of the court. He shall receive such fees for his services in executing the order as may be fixed by the court. He shall add such fees and all other costs of the proceeding to the taxes levied in executing such order, and place them upon the duplicate for collection with such taxes.

...ised Code do not limit the power of the court to carry its order and judgment into execution, or to punish any officer named therein for contempt or disobedience of its orders or writs.

...A civil action in quo warranto may be brought in the name of the state: (A) Against a person who usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or exercises a public office, civil or military, or a franchise, within this state, or an office in a corporation created by the authority of this state; (B) Against a public officer, civil or military, who does or suffers an act which, by law, works a forfeiture of his office;...

...A civil action in quo warranto may be brought in the name of the state against a corporation: (A) When it has offended against a law providing for its creation or renewal, or any amendment thereof; (B) When it has forfeited its privileges and franchises by nonuser; (C) When it has committed or omitted an act which amounts to a surrender of its corporate rights, privileges, and franchises; (D) When it has misused ...

...When directed by the governor, supreme court, secretary of state, or general assembly, the attorney general, or a prosecuting attorney, shall commence an action in quo warranto. When, upon complaint or otherwise, either of such officers has good reason to believe that any case specified in section 2733.02 of the Revised Code can be established by proof, he shall commence such action.

...n his own relation, or, on leave of the court, or of a judge thereof in vacation, he may bring the action upon the relation of another person. If the action is brought under division (A) of section 2733.01 of the Revised Code, he may require security for costs to be given as in other cases.

...A person claiming to be entitled to a public office unlawfully held and exercised by another may bring an action therefor by himself or an attorney at law, upon giving security for costs.

...ction in quo warranto, or disabled, the court, or a judge thereof in vacation, may direct or permit any member of the bar to act in his place to bring and prosecute the action.

...When an action in quo warranto is brought against a person for usurping an office, the petition shall set forth the name of the person claiming to be entitled to the office, with an averment of his right thereto. Judgment may be rendered upon the right of the defendant, and also on the right of the person averred to be so entitled, or only upon the right of the defendant, as justice requires. All persons who claim ...

...ition in an action in quo warranto, the court or judge may direct notice thereof to be given to the defendant previous to granting such leave, and may hear the defendant in opposition thereto. If leave is granted, an entry thereof shall be made on the journal, or the fact shall be indorsed by the judge on the petition, which shall then be filed.

...When the petition in an action in quo warranto is filed without leave and notice, a summons shall issue, and be served as in other cases. Such summons may be sent to and returned by the sheriff of any county by mail. The sheriff is entitled to the same fees thereon as if it had been issued and returned in his own county.

...und within the county, the clerk of the court in which the action was brought must publish a notice for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and of general circulation in the county, setting forth the filing and substance of the petition. Upon proof of such publication the default of the defendant may be entered and judgment rendered thereon, as if he had been served with summons.

...The defendant in an action in quo warranto may demur or file an answer, which may contain as many several defenses as he has, within thirty days after the filing of the petition, if it was filed on leave and notice, or after the return day of the summons. The plaintiff may file a demurrer or a reply to such answer within thirty days thereafter.

...uo warranto an order may be made by the court, or by a judge thereof, extending the time within which a pleading may be filed. Such order does not work a continuance of the case.

...When a defendant in an action in quo warranto is found guilty of usurping, intruding into, or unlawfully holding or exercising an office, franchise, or privilege, judgment shall be rendered that he be ousted and excluded therefrom, and that the relator recover his costs.

...st a director of a corporation, and the court finds that, at his election, illegal votes were received or legal votes rejected sufficient to change the result, judgment may be rendered that the defendant be ousted, and of induction in favor of the person who was entitled to be declared elected.

...section 2733.15 of the Revised Code the court may order a new election to be held at a time and place and by judges it appoints. Notice of the election and naming such judges shall be given as provided by law for notice of elections of directors of the corporation. The order of the court is obligatory upon the corporation and its officers when a duly certified copy is served upon its secretary personally, or left at ...

...If judgment in an action in quo warranto is rendered in favor of the person averred to be entitled to an office, after taking the oath of office and executing any official bond required by law, he may take upon him the execution of the office. Immediately thereafter such person shall demand of the defendant all books and papers in his custody or within his power appertaining to the office from which the defendant has...

...Within one year after the date of a judgment mentioned in section 2733.17 of the Revised Code, the person in whose favor the judgment is rendered may bring an action against the party ousted, and recover the damages he sustained by reason of such usurpation.

...this section is guilty of a contempt of court.

...When, in an action in quo warranto, it is found and adjudged that, by an act done or omitted, a corporation has surrendered or forfeited its corporate rights, privileges, and franchises, or has not used them during a term of five years, judgment shall be entered that it be ousted and excluded therefrom, and that it be dissolved. When it is found and adjudged in such case, that a corporation has offended in a matter ...

...The court rendering a judgment dissolving a corporation as provided in section 2733.20 of the Revised Code shall appoint a trustee or trustees, not exceeding three in number, for the benefit of the creditors and stockholders thereof, who shall each give an undertaking payable to this state, in such sum and with such sureties as the court designates and approves, conditioned that they will faithfully discharge their r...

...property of the corporation, unless the court, for good cause shown, orders otherwise.

... for the recovery of such claims in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which such corporation has or had its last principal place of business. Should such suit finally terminate in favor of the claimant, the judgment therein obtained by him is entitled to share with other claims against the corporation, in the manner and to the same extent as if the claim had been allowed in the first instance by th...