State ex rel. Pasley v. Recorder of Mortgages

‘The writ of Mccnda/nms Is only intended to enforce a clearly recognized right and compel the performance of a ministerial duty with respect to that right. It is to supply the want of any other adequate remedy, not to supersede the ordinary forms. 'The right to have a privilege or mortgage cancelled cannot he tested unless those having a real or pretended interest he made parties.