State v. Holder
Mississippi Supreme Court
.From the circuit court, first district, of Hinds county.- Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. The appellant, the state, ex rel., was the plaintiff in the court below; appellee, Holder, auditor, was defendant there. Mandamus on the relation of the teachers and officers of the Industrial Institute and College to compel the auditor of public accounts to issue warrants for their salaries. The mandamus was denied and the relators appealed. The opinion states the case.
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.From the circuit court, first district, of Hinds county.- Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. The appellant, the state, ex rel., was the plaintiff in the court below; appellee, Holder, auditor, was defendant there. Mandamus on the relation of the teachers and officers of the Industrial Institute and College to compel the auditor of public accounts to issue warrants for their salaries. The mandamus was denied and the relators appealed. The opinion states the case. The auditor takes the position (1) that this law is null and void, not having been constitutionally passed by the legislature and approved…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
The most difficult and delicate duty that ever falls to the lot of the court of last resort is ours to-day. In interpreting various provisions of our constitution, we are called upon to declare the boundaries beyond which executive action may not pass, and to fix the limitations upon the executive authority to veto the declared will, of both houses of the legislature.
On the eighth day of February, 1898, the following bill was passed by the house of representatives, viz.:
*178AN ACT to appropriate money for the support and maintenance of the industrial institute and college for the years 1898 and…
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