Case Title: State ex rel. Eads v. Callahan

Citation: 1998-Ohio-514

Docket Number: 19980227

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 1998-07-29T00:00:00Z

Document:
THE STATE EX REL. EADS, APPELLANT, v. CALLAHAN, JUDGE, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Eads v. Callahan (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.] 
Mandamus to compel common pleas court judge to issue findings of fact and 
conclusions of law on relator’s petition for postconviction relief — Writ 
denied when act already performed. 
(No. 98-227 — Submitted May 26, 1998 — Decided July 29, 1998.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County, No. 73265. 
 
In October 1997, appellant, Daniel T. Eads, filed a complaint for a writ of 
mandamus in the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County to compel appellee, 
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kenneth R. Callahan, to issue 
findings of fact and conclusions of law on Eads’s petition for postconviction 
relief.  Eads did not file an accompanying affidavit specifying the details of his 
mandamus claim, as required by Loc.App.R. 8(B)(1).  Judge Callahan 
subsequently issued findings of fact and conclusions of law denying Eads’s 
petition for postconviction relief. 
 
The court of appeals granted Judge Callahan’s motion for summary 
judgment and denied the writ.  The court of appeals held that the mandamus action 
was moot and that Eads did not comply with Loc.App.R. 8(B)(1). 
 
This cause is now before this court upon an appeal as of right. 
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Daniel T. Eads, pro se. 
 
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, and Daniel 
M. Margolis, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee. 
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Per Curiam.  We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals for the reasons 
stated in its opinion.  A writ of mandamus will not issue to compel an act already 
 
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performed.  State ex rel. Jerninghan v. Cuyahoga Cty. Court of Common Pleas 
(1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 278, 279, 658 N.E.2d 723, 724. 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and 
LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.