Stephens v. Chambers
California Court of Appeal
APPLICATION for a Writ of Mandamus originally made to the District Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
This is an application for a writ of mandate requiring respondent, as state controller, to draw his warrant in favor of petitioner “for such portion of the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, as petitioner may require. ’ ’
At the recent session of the legislature there was regularly passed an act entitled “An act to provide for the celebration of the national memorial reunion and peace jubilee at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and making an appropriation therefor,” which act was by the Governor approved and took effect July 31, 1917 (Stats. 1917, p. 1608). Section 1 thereof reads, in part, as follows:…
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