Rice v. State ex rel. Drapier

Complaint by William H. Drapier as relator, styling himself plaintiff, against James H. Rice, auditor of State, for a mandate, in two paragraphs.

The first paragraph charged that on the 9th day of January, A. D. 1883, the General Assembly of the State of Indiana appropriated for legislative expenses the sum of $125,-000, by an act entitled “An act appropriating $125,000 to de’fray the expenses of the regular session of the Fifty-Third General Assembly of the State of Indiana, and other matters connected therewith, and declaring an emergency,” approved January 9th, 1883; that at the beginning…