Ingels v. Riley

THE COURT.

Petition for a writ of mandate to compel respondent, as state controller, to issue his warrant to the state treasurer authorizing the latter to pay a printing claim incurred by petitioner as director of the department of motor vehicles. The purpose of the proceeding is to secure an interpretation and to test the constitutionality of the Motor Vehicle License Pee Act. (Stats, of 1935, chap. 362, p. 1312.)

The precise problem involved arose under the following circumstances. By the terms of the act, the administration thereof is placed in petitioner’s department. Petitioner interpreted…