CITY OF RICHMOND v. HAYES


184 S.E.2d 784 (1971)

212 Va. 428

CITY OF RICHMOND v. Freeman C. HAYES, M.D., Director of Public Health, etc.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 29, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel T. Balfour, Asst. City Atty., for the City of Richmond (Conard B. Mattox, Jr., City Atty., for the City of Richmond, on brief), for petitioner.

Francis T. Eck, J. Murray Hooker, II, Richmond (Jeffreys & Lawler, Richmond, on brief), for respondent.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON, HARRISON, COCHRAN and HARMAN, JJ.


SNEAD, Chief Justice.

Invoking the original jurisdiction of this Court (Va.Const. Art. VI, § 1, Code § 17-96), the City of Richmond filed a petition for a peremptory writ of mandamus against its Director of the Department of Public Health, Freeman C. Hayes. The petition prays that we compel the Director to perform the ministerial duties imposed upon him by an Ordinance of the city (No. 68-223-187) that implemented Chapter 799 of the 1968 Acts of Assembly...

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