State Ex Rel. Wayne v. Sims

Browning, Judge:

Relator, Ivanhoe S. Wayne, seeks a peremptory writ of mandamus, directed to Edgar B. Sims, Auditor of the State of West Virginia, requiring him to honor relator’s requisitions for salary due for serving as Director of the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.

The relator alleges the creation of this Bureau, and the provision that it was to be in the charge of a Director, appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent and advice of the Senate, to hold office for four years, unless sooner removed according to law. The petition then alleges the appointment of C. F. Hopson as…