State ex rel. Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Gorman

A writ of mandamus may issue only where the relator shows (1) a clear legal right to the relief prayed for, (2) a clear legal duty upon respondent to perform the act requested, and (3) that relator has no plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law. State, ex rel. Butler, v. Demis (1981), 66 Ohio St. 2d 123, 124; State, ex rel. Akron Fire Fighters, v. Akron (1978), 54 Ohio St. 2d 448, 450.

Appellant contends that appellee is under a clear legal duty to apply the doctrine of forum non convmims. In Hughes v. Scaffide (1978), 53 Ohio St. 2d 85, we discussed the doctrine of forum…