Case Name: The State, ex rel. Welsh, v. State Medical Board of Ohio et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1945-04-04
Citations: 145 Ohio St. 74
Docket Number: No. 30167
Parties: The State, ex rel. Welsh, v. State Medical Board of Ohio et al.
Judges: Weygandt, C. J., Zimmerman, Bell, Williams, Turner, Matthias and Hart, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 145
Pages: 74–75

Head Matter:
The State, ex rel. Welsh, v. State Medical Board of Ohio et al.
(No. 30167
Decided April 4, 1945.)
Mr. George M. Brown and Mr. Charles Auerbach, for relator.
Mr. Thomas J. Herbert and Mr. Hugh 8. Jenkins, attorneys general, Mr. Clemens R. Frank and Mr. Ralph H. Klapp, for respondents.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Counsel for relator cite no statute requiring the State Medical Board to restore or reinstate a license which has been revoked. It is stated in the brief for relator: "The question then is this: Granted that the Legislature failed expressly to endow the medical board with the powers of restitution of license after revocation, has the board implied or cognate power to do so? We believe and respectfully submit that it has."
The writ of mandamus will not issue to command performance of "implied or cognate power." Section 12283, General Code, defines mandamus as "a writ issued to a board commanding the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office. ." (Emphasis ours.)
We are asked to issue a writ of mandamus to command the performance of an act which is not specially enjoined by law upon the board. The writ will not issue for that purpose.
Writ denied.
Weygandt, C. J., Zimmerman, Bell, Williams, Turner, Matthias and Hart, JJ., concur.