Hayes v. Civ. Ser. Com'n of Metro. Gov.

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• holding when the state statute did not abrogate the common law rule, the only available damage remedy in a mandamus action was one for making a false return, and damages for the delay in doing the thing the mandamus sought to command could not be sought in the mandamus action
• “Mandamus . . . is a special remedy in which the issues are severely limited. It is used to coerce the performance of official duties[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).