State ex rel. Olympia National Bank v. Lewis

This is an original application in this court for a writ of mandate to compel the state treasurer to pay a warrant for the sum of $1,713.58, issued by the state auditor upon claims which had been audited and approved by the board of military auditors. After return and answer by the treasurer, the parties, by their counsel, filed a stipulation *267agreeing upon the facts involved. These facts, so far as material to our inquiry, may be briefly stated as follows:

In the latter part of the year. 1908, the appropriation for the use of the militia of the state being wholly exhausted, Ortis Hamilton,…