Leonard v. Helms Printing Company

This is an appeal from an order of the Pulaski Circuit Court awarding a writ of mandamus directing the State Treasurer to pay three certain warrants held by petitioners, who published the journals of the House and Senate of the regular session of the 48th General Assembly and tbe journals of tbe first and second extraordinary sessions of that body.

Funds to pay for these publications were not available, and certificates were issued by the State Auditor for the amounts due therefor. This was done pursuant to the authority of § 4463, Crawford & Moses’ Digest, which provides that, “in all cases…