Austin v. Campbell

UDALL, Vice Chief Justice.

This is a taxpayer’s action to recover for the State of Arizona certain expense reimbursements audited, paid out and received pursuant to a statute later held unconstitutional by this court in Giss v. Jordan, 82 Ariz. 152, 309 P.2d 779 (1957). From a summary judgment for plaintiff Campbell, defendants Jewel W. Jordan, auditor for the State of Arizona, and thirteen members of the Twenty-second Legislature have appealed.

Since 1947 Arizona legislators have been reimbursed for necessary expenses in*197curred during sessions of the legislature.1 But prior to 1956 amounts so…