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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State, ex rel. Mann, v. Floyd, Judge.
    (No. 28548
    Decided May 14, 1941.)
    
      
      Mr. William P. Heyne, for relator.
    
      Messrs. Lynch, Day, Pontius & Lynch and Mr. Kenneth B. Cope, for respondent.
   By the Court.

Section 11347, General Code, relating to rule days, reads: “Upon such terms as are just, the court * * *, for good cause shown, may extend the time for filing any pleading. ’ ’

The writ of mandamus “may require an inferior tribunal to exercise its judgment, or proceed to the discharge of any of its functions, but it cannot control judicial discretion.” (Italics ours.) Section 12285, General Code. See, also, State, ex rel. Frye, Exr., v. MacConkey, Judge, 136 Ohio St., 462, 26 N. E. (2d), 457; State, ex rel. White, v. Jewell, Judge, 132 Ohio St., 300, 7 N. E. (2d), 410.

Although this court strongly disapproves of the dilatory proceedings below, tbe demurrer to tbe petition is sustained and a writ denied.

Writ denied.

Weygandt, C. J., Turner, Williams, Hart, Zimmerman and Bettman, JJ., concur.

Matthias, J., not participating.