STATE, EX REL. SPELLMIRE v. KAUER

No. 37034.

173 Ohio St. 279 (1962)

THE STATE, EX REL. SPELLMIRE, v. KAUER, DIR., DEPT. OF PUBLIC WORKS, ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided April 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Goodman & Goodman and Messrs. Murphy, Murphy & Deddens, for relator.

Mr. Mark McElroy, attorney general, and Mr. Victor S. Krupman, for respondent.

Messrs. Graydon, Head & Ritchey and Mr. Bruce I. Petrie, for intervening respondent.


Per Curiam.

Relator's action is based on his claimed rights under a contract of lease. Nowhere in his amended petition does he allege that the acts which he seeks to have performed by the respondent are acts which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from respondent's office. The extraordinary remedy of mandamus will be granted only upon a showing of a clearly defined legal duty and a plain dereliction of that duty. This the relator has failed to do...

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