Patterson v. Taylor

Simmons, Chief Justice.

Certain citizens of Appling county petitioned the superior court for a mandamus against the ordinary of that county, to compel him to build a bridge over a stream across a public road at a place where no bridge previously existed, the petition alleging that the building of the bridge had been recommended by two successive grand juries. The *647case was submitted, upou tbe law and tbe facts, to tbe presiding judge, who made the mamlamms absolute-; and to this judgment the ordinary excepted.

Mandamus will not lie to compel a public officer to do .an act not clearly commanded…