STATE EX REL. PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO. v. Duncan

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• “Plainly, the legislature intended that mandamus should be an extraordinary remedy. *** In order to lessen the possibility of being misunderstood, our statute added the words that the writ should never be employed as a means of controlling judicial discretion.”
• “Plainly, the legislature intended that mandamus should be an extraordinary remedy. * * * In order to lessen the possibility of being misunderstood, our statute added the words that the writ should never be employed as a means of controlling judicial discretion.”

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