State Ex Rel. Davis Trust Co. v. Sims

Haymond, Judge:

In this original proceeding the petitioner, Davis Trust Company, Administrator of the personal estate of Lucy Ward, deceased, seeks a peremptory writ of mandamus in this Court to compel the defendant, the Auditor of West Virginia, to issue a warrant upon the State Treasurer for the payment of an appropriation of $5,000.00 made by the Legislature of this State to satisfy the claim of the petitioner for damages resulting from the death of its intestate, an elderly lady, who was raped and murdered on January 20, 1945, by a felon under sentence of life imprisonment while he was…