Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with costs, the petition is denied, and the proceeding is dismissed.
The extraordinary remedy of mandamus will lie only to compel the performance of a ministerial act and only when there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought (see, Klostermann v Cuomo,
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