State ex rel. Schneider v. Cunningham

Application for mandamus. The legislature has never passed an Act formally creating the office of stenographer of this court, but from session to session has made appropriations in the general appropriation bill for the executive and judicial departments of the government of specific sums to be used for the employment of a competent person to perform the services necessary in this behalf. This amount has been increased from time to time as the changing circumstances seemed to require. The relator has served the court at its pleasure by appointment since February 10, 1896. At that time the…