Charles Gabus Ford, Inc. v. Iowa State Highway Commission

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• indicating that a petition for writ of mandamus may be joined with claims for legal relief against the same defendant
• providing that when “the duty was subject to the exercise of discretion on the part of the defendant, . . . mandamus will lie only if it is shown [the] defendant acted arbitrarily or capriciously . . . .”
• discussing requirement of exhaustion of administrative remedies when agency has primary or exclusive jurisdiction over controversy
• listing as an essential prerequisite to a writ of mandamus, “absence of any other adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).