State ex rel. Fraternal Order of Police, Orlando Lodge No. 25 v. City of Orlando

The petition for alternative writ of mandamus seeks more to establish a legal right than to enforce a clear legal duty already established. Traditionally, such is not the proper function of the writ of mandamus. State ex rel. Long v. Carey, 1935, 121 Fla. 515, 164 So. 199; State ex rel. Topp v. Board of Electrical Examiners, Fla.App.1958, 101 So.2d 583; Slaughter v. State ex rel. Harrell, Fla.App.1971, 245 So. 2d 126. It further appears that relators have an adequate remedy under the Declaratory Judgment Act, Chapter 86, F.S. 1971 and it has been held that the writ will not issue when there…