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# O.C.G.A. § 9-6-24. What interest required to enforce public right.

Where the question is one of public right and the object is to procure the enforcement of a public duty, no legal or special interest need be shown, but it shall be sufficient that a plaintiff is interested in having the laws executed and the duty in question enforced.

## History

Code 1933, § 64-104.

## Law Reviews

For article, “A Taxing Exception: Southern LNG, Inc. v. MacGinnitie’s Narrow Interpretation of the Mandamus Exception,” see 66 Mercer L. Rev. 855 (2015).

For annual survey of administrative law, see 67 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (2015).