Saunders v. Sims

Haymond, Judge:

This is an original proceeding in mandamus in which *164the petitioner, Thomas Saunders, seeks a writ to compel the defendant, Honorable Edgar B. Sims, Auditor of the State of West Virginia, to honor a requisition on the treasury of the State in the sum of $300.00 in favor of the petitioner for the payment of an appropriation in that amount as provided by Chapter 12, Acts of the Legislature, 1949, Regular Session. That statute declared the existence of a moral obligation on the part of the State to pay the claim of the petitioner and Chapter 9, Acts of the Legislature, 1949,…