Court Opinion

ID: 9663803
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:51:32.300678+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:57.071123
License: Public Domain

O’Hara, J.
(dissenting). This is a mandamus action. No amount of evidentiary matter can alter that fact. The relief sought is a writ compelling the secretary of State to discontinue certain specified “fee” branch offices by restraining payment to the persons operating them. Few more effective means to compel discontinuance could have been chosen. To compel the secretary of State to discontinue the offices which have been operating for 23 years is beyond the jurisdiction of a circuit court. Nor could a judgment declaratory of the necessity of so doing be any more effective.
The motion to dismiss should have been granted.