State ex rel. Farrar v. Hipple

These were Original applications to this court for writs of mandamus requiring defendant, as state auditor, to issue warrants in favor of the relator plaintiffs, respectivily, as city treasurer of their several cities as above named, for the amounts to which such treasurers claim to be entitled for the use of the fire departments of said cities under the provisions of chapter 58, Laws 1887. The cases being alike, they will be disposed' of in one opinion.

Whithout prefatory detail it is sufficient to say that in Cutting v. Taylor, 3 S. D. 11, 51 N. W. 949, the legal effect of this law was…