Weaver v. Koehn

Under the provisions of chapter 33, Laws 1929, the legislature appropriated $260,111.34, or so much thereof as .should be necessary, to repay depositors in failed banks for such of their money as was deposited by them therein while the banks were closed and were being operated by the guaranty fund commission.

The Honorable Arthur J. Weaver, governor, and ex officio head of the department of trade and commerce, authorized the beginning of this suit to obtain a judicial determination, or a declaratory judgment, stating- whether the legislative appropriation herein named is valid, and to obtain a…