State ex rel. Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. v. Indus. Comm. (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} Appellant, Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc., filed a complaint in the Tenth District Court of Appeals for a writ of mandamus that would require appellee the Industrial Commission of Ohio to vacate its award of permanent-total-disability compensation to appellee Robert L. Mason.

{¶ 2} The court of appeals denied the writ, concluding that Old Dominion did not have a clear legal right to the relief requested and the commission did not have a corresponding duty to provide such relief. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

{¶ 3} Mason was injured on January 18, 2005, when he slipped on ice…