State ex rel. Bar Realty Corp. v. Locher

Several propositions of law are enumerated by respondents-appellants as grounds for reversal of the judgment. Included among them are contentions that mandamus will not lie to compel a public officer to enforce a police regulation in relation to a specific person and that the ordinances in question conflict with statutes under which the state, through its Water Pollution Control Board, has granted permission to certain industries to discharge industrial wastes into the tributaries of Lake Erie.

In its opinion, the trial court agreed with the first of the above-noted contentions of respondents,…