State ex rel. Local 330 v. City of Akron

As set forth in State, ex rel. National City Bank, v. Bd. of Education (1977), 52 Ohio St. 2d 81, at page 84, before relators may obtain a writ of mandamus, they must show “ (1) that they have a clear legal right to the relief prayed for, (2) that respondents are under a clear legal duty to perform the acts, and (3) that relators have no plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law.”

The issue in this cause revolves around whether respondents have a clear legal duty to grant relators’ request for a 10.7 percent salary increase beginning on April 1, 1977.

Section 70a provides that…