Davis v. State Ex Rel. Pecsok

This is a taxpayer’s action in mandamus originating in the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, wherein it was sought to compel Harry L. Davis, as Mayor of the city of Cleveland, Louis C. West, as Director of Finance, Russell Y. Johnson, as Treasurer, and F. E. McKee, as Commissioner of Accounts of the city, to issue a voucher and check for the payment of $1,250,000, claimed to be owing by the city to the Treasury Investment Account.

The Court of Appeals found in favor of the relator and awarded a writ of mandamus as prayed for. Error is prosecuted to this court to reverse the judgment…