State ex rel. Kaldor v. Court of Common Pleas

As noted in State, ex rel. Pressley, v. Indus. Comm. (1967), 11 Ohio St. 2d 141 [40 O.O.2d 141], mandamus is an extraordinary remedy, and the third paragraph of the syllabus therein states in part that when “* * * it is determined that the relator has a plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law by way of appeal, neither the Supreme Court nor the Court of Appeals has authority to exercise jurisdictional discretion but those courts are required to deny the writ.” The exhaustion of the plain *115and adequate remedies in the ordinary course of the law is a prerequisite to the…