State ex rel. Donovan v. Barret

The relator prays in this proceeding for a unit of mandate ordering the state treásurer to pay a certain warrant issued by the state auditor to one James B. Toughill for services performed in the office of the attorney general as stenographer .between the first day of January and the first day of February, 1904-, or, if the said warrant may not be paid for want of funds, to register the same according to law. An alternative writ was issued and answer made.

At the Eighth session of the legislative assembly there wjas appropriated for the purpose of paying the salary of steno*204grapher for the…