State ex rel. Williams v. City of Canton

In Canton v. Whitman (1975), 44 Ohio St. 2d 62, 337 N. E. 2d 766, certiorari denied 425 U. S. 956 (1976), the city of Canton, respondent herein, had refused to fluoridate its water, and the issue was whether the state might order it to do so. Therein, this court upheld the July 3, 1974, order of the then-Director of Environmental Protection, directing the municipality to begin fluoridating' its water within 30 days.

Relator contends that a peremptory writ of mandamus should issue today because his right to command the execution of the act as requested in his application for the writ is plain,…