Strank v. Mercy Hospital of Johnstown

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• suggesting a writ of mandamus will not issue to enforce a right based solely on contract and not on law
• when right or duty asserted rests wholly on contract, a common pleas court cannot issue a writ of mandamus
• when right or duty asserted rests wholly on contract, a common pleas court cannot issue a writ of mandamus
• when right or duty asserted rests wholly on contract, a common pleas court cannot issue a writ of mandamus
• where student nurse was expelled from private nursing school for infraction of rules and sought in equity action to have school give her transfer credits for work completed, action was within peculiar province of equity since there was no legal remedy

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