State Ex Rel. Cook v. Lawson

Lively, Judge:

The superintendent of schools of Wyoming County, and the district boards of education of that county, relators in this mandamus proceeding, asli that the state auditor and state sinking fund commission be required to pay over to the sheriff of that county $89,398.24, the amount levied in the year 1930, for free school purposes and collected by the auditor from the public utilities of that county, asserting that they have made requisition on the auditor for such payment, in the manner prescribed by law, which payment has been refused. It is averred in the petition that the…