Case Name: Bowles et al. v. Etheridge, Judge
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1933-03-01
Citations: 176 Ga. 660
Docket Number: No. 8953
Parties: Bowles et al. v. Etheridge, Judge.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 176
Pages: 660–660

Head Matter:
Bowles et al. v. Etheridge, Judge.
No. 8953.
March 1, 1933.
Charles W. Anderson, for plaintiffs.
Dorsey & Shelton and B. H. Pharr, for defendant.

Opinion:
Atkinson, J.
"Mandamus will not lie to compel a public officer to do an act not clearly commanded by law, nor is one entitled to the writ unless it be made to appear that he has a clear legal right to have the particular act performed, the doing of which he seeks to have enforced." Cureton v. Wheeler, 172 Ga. 879 (159 S. E. 283). It was not error to refuse a mandamus absolute.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.