State Ex Rel. Gillis v. Goodrich

1 Reported in 264 N.W. 234. The powers of the city comptroller of the city of St. Paul are in question. The case comes here on appeal by relator from a judgment quashing an alternative writ of mandamus. Mandamus was sought for the purpose of compelling the comptroller to transmit to the city council, as his own, the estimate of the commissioner of public safety relating to the bureau of fire protection, hereinafter called the fire department. The comptroller had transmitted to the council his own estimate of the needs of that department which would require a reduction in its personnel from…