Cook v. Auditor General

The relator asks for a mandamus to compel tbe auditor general to countersign a certificate issued to relator by the speaker and clerk for mileag'e *49claimed to be due him as journal clerk of the house of representatives during the regular session of 1901. The facts are undisputed. It appears that the relator has his legal residence at Rock River, Alger county, Mich.; that he was journal clerk of the house during the special session in December, 1900; that from the close of that session until the opening of the regular session he was employed in assisting the clerk of the house; that he has not…