...entered denying the writ this appeal was taken. The writ of mandate will issue to a board of supervisors to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from their office. And then only where there is not a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy in the ordinary...

...a court may, by writ of mandate, compel a tribunal, corporation, board, or person to perform is one which the law specially enjoins, as a duty resulting from an office, trust or station. (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1085.) The statute under which the proceedings to disincorporate are taken (Henning's...

...plain, adequate, and speedy remedy in the ordinary course of law, and for the purpose of requiring the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office. The record in this court does not present such a case as entitled the petitioner to this remedy....

...the writ of mandamus. Said section provides that such a writ may be issued by the court to any board to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins. As we have seen, the law specially enjoins upon the board of trustees the calling of the election when...

...the writ of mandamus. Said section provides that such a writ may be issued by the court to any board to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins. As we have seen, the law specially enjoins upon the board of trustees the calling of the election when...

...jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandate to compel an officer, like an auditor of a county, to perform an act "which the law specially enjoins, as a duty resulting from an office." (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1085.) The law also imposed upon the auditor the duty of drawing his...

...we place upon the contract, is at periods of "one month or more." The writ of mandamus will lie only "to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins" (Code Civ. Proc., see. 1085). Here the only duties enjoined upon the defendant are the obligations...

...by what court issued. It may be issued by any court, except a commissioner's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person to...duty resulting from an office, trust, or station; or to compel the admission of a party to the use and enjoyment of a right or office to which he is...

...Civ. Proc., provides that the writ of mandamus may be issued by the Supreme and Circuit Courts to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person, to...duty resulting from an office, trust, or station, or to compel the admission of a party to the use and enjoyment of a right or office to which he is...

...compel a person to violate an express provision of the law. The act required to be performed must be one which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station or unlawfully excludes the plaintiff from the use and enjoyment of a right or office to which he is...