People ex rel. H. J. Mullen Contracting Co. v. Craig

This is an application for a writ of mand'amus requiring the comptroller to deliver to the relator a warrant of the city of New York for $35,244 on an account of work done under a- contract for regulating, paving, etc., Third avenue from First to Thirteenth streets, College Point, borough of Queens.

The writ of mandamus', generally speaking, issues only in cases where there is a clear legal right in the relator and there is no other adequate and legal means to obtain it. In the case of public officers' it issues to compel the performance of ministerial duties which are clearly enjoined as…