Ansonia Water Company's Application for Mandamus
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application to the Supreme Court of Errors for a writ of mandamus requiring the Superior Court in New Haven County, Gager, J., to enter forthwith a final judgment upon its denial of the applicant’s motion for a disclosure in a suit pending in said court. To this application the respondent demurred.
1Per curiam
Since the organization of this court the use of mandamus as an appropriate procedure for the exercise of its jurisdiction has never been sanctioned by any practice or custom. The statutes regulating procedure do not purport to authorize this court to issue writs of mandamus in the exercise of original jurisdiction, nor to use mandamus as an appropriate process for an exercise of appellate jurisdiction. It is useless, therefore, to inquire whether or not it may be practicable for the legislature, in view of the nature of the jurisdiction vested in this court, to utilize the action of mandamus…
2Cited by4 opinions
- Winchester Repeating Arms Co. v. RadcliffeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1947
- Huggins v. MulveySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1971
- Lynahan v. ChurchSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1909
- Strogoff v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1974