Birdsall v. Carrick
Nevada Supreme Court
In this case, there was a petition to this Court for a mandamus to compel the Treasurer of Lyon County to pay certain warrants out of the General Fund of that county.
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In this case, there was a petition to this Court for a mandamus to compel the Treasurer of Lyon County to pay certain warrants out of the General Fund of that county. The Treasurer admitted there were funds in the Treasury applicable to these warrants, unless the same had been diverted by what was claimed to have been a law passed at the session of the Legislature begun on the first Monday of January, 1867. The petitioner contended that the pretended law was never regularly passed, and if so passed was unconstitutional. There were a number of objections raised to the validity of the law, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Lewis, J., Beatty, C. J.,
concurring.
The petitioner’s application is for a writ of mandamus to compel the Treasurer of Lyon County to pay a certain warrant or evidence of indebtedness issued by the county and made payable out of its *155General Fund. The Treasurer refuses to pay the warrant because it is claimed that this, with all other claims against the General Fund of that county, is to be funded in accordance with the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the present year, entitled “ An Act authorizing the County of Lyon to Fund the Outstanding Indebtedness against the General…
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