Headid v. Rodman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• describing a ministerial act as one “to be performed upon a given state of facts, in a prescribed manner . . . [which] does not require the person or board . . . to exercise his or its own judgment”
• “Plaintiff’s right to the performance of the act he seeks to compel must be clear, certain and free from the possibility of any reasonable controversy.”
• “When a writ of mandamus is asked, the court may inquire whether it will operate impartially, create confusion and disorder, and whether it will or will not promote substantial justice.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).