Case Name: The State, ex rel. Summit County Child Welfare Board, v. Luidens, Commr. of Mental Hygiene
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1962-12-05
Citations: 174 Ohio St. 53
Docket Number: No. 37773
Parties: The State, ex rel. Summit County Child Welfare Board, v. Luidens, Commr. of Mental Hygiene.
Judges: Zimmerman, Taft, Matthias, Crawford, O’Neill and Griffith, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 174
Pages: 53–54

Head Matter:
The State, ex rel. Summit County Child Welfare Board, v. Luidens, Commr. of Mental Hygiene.
(No. 37773
Decided December 5, 1962.)
Mr. John 8. Ballard, prosecuting attorney, and Mr. John D. Smith, for relator.
Mr. Mark McElroy, attorney general, and Mr. William P. Meehan, for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Relator is afforded by a declaratory judgment action a plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law. In such a case, a writ of mandamus may be denied. State, ex rel. Moran, v. Welling, Dir., 172 Ohio St., 516.
The demurrer is sustained and a writ of mandamus is denied.
Writ denied.
Zimmerman, Taft, Matthias, Crawford, O'Neill and Griffith, JJ., concur.
Crawford, J., of the Second Appellate District, sitting by designation in the place and stead of Herbert, J.