Hayes v. Brown

Wyatt, Justice.

“All official duties should be faithfully performed; and whenever, from any cause, a defect of legal justice would ensue from a failure or improper performance, the writ of mandamus may issue to compel a due performance, if there' shall be no other specific legal remedy for the legal rights.” Code, § 64-101. “The right to the extraordinary aid of mandamus does not exist when there is available to the party seeking the writ a specific legal remedy.” DeBerry v. Spikes, 188 Ga. 222 (3 S. E. 2d, 719), and cit. Ordinarily, errors of law committed by a justice of the peace in the…