Higgins v. Glenn

GIDEON, 0. J.

William B. Higgins, herein designated plaintiff, applied to this court for a writ of mandate directed to John H. Glenn as director of the department of finance and purchase of the state of Utah. The object sought by the writ is to compel the director to examine and approve a claim for certain amounts totaling $292.90 expended by plaintiff for necessary lodging and sustenance while absent from his place of residence and within his district in the performance of his official duties as district attorney in and for the Fifth judicial district of the state.

An alternative writ was…