2 Or. App. 545 - Sowell v. Workmen's Compensation Board’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““In Riesland v. Bailey, 146 Or. 574, 578 , 31 P.2d 183, 185 , 92 A.L.R. 1207 (1934), the court said: ‘ * * * The public officer or inferior tribunal may be guilty of * * * such an evasion of positive duty, as to amount to virtual refusal to perform the duty enjoined, or to act at all, in contemplation of law. In such a case mandamus would afford a remedy where there was no other adequate remedy provided by law * * *.’ (Emphasis supplied.) The cases which we have cited above involved full-time public officers upon which statutory duties are enjoined, but we see no reason why their holdings should not apply as well to a temporary board, such as a medical board, which is constituted under state law and upon which is enjoined a statutory duty. We cannot find any other adequate remedy available for obtaining direct answers to the questions involved.” 470 P.2d at 956 .”

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   e.g. Campbell v. Arnold