State ex rel. Walker v. City of Bowling Green

We must first determine whether mandamus is the proper remedy here.

In State ex rel. Corron v. Wisner (1971), 25 Ohio St.2d 160, 163, 54 O.O.2d 281, 283, 267 N.E.2d 308, 310-311, we stated that “[w]here, as here, an action in mandamus does not provide effective relief unless accompanied by an ancillary [preventive] injunction, it would appear that injunction rather than mandamus is the appropriate remedy.” In State ex rel. Hodges v. Taft (1992), 64 Ohio St.3d 1, 4, 591 N.E.2d 1186, 1189, we indicated that this is a corollary to the rule established in State ex rel. Pressley v. Indus. Comm.…