State Ex Rel. Hudson v. Carter

This is an original action which was brought in this court by certain employees of the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma, who seek thereby to obtain a writ of mandamus against F. C. Carter, State Auditor of the state of Oklahoma, requiring him to audit and allow their several claims for salaries for the month of July, 1933, and to draw and issue to each of them a warrant for the amount thereof. An alternative writ of mandamus in conformity with the prayer of the petition was issued and the same was returned with an answer thereto by the respondent in which is set forth the reasons assigned…