State ex rel. Hibbard v. Cornell
Nebraska Supreme Court
Original application for mandamus to require the respondent to draw his warrant for the salary of the deputy food commissioner. Government, in the broadest sense of the term, is frequently employed as synonymous with state or body politic, likewise as applicable to the administration, or persons charged with the execution of the law.
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Original application for mandamus to require the respondent to draw his warrant for the salary of the deputy food commissioner. Government, in the broadest sense of the term, is frequently employed as synonymous with state or body politic, likewise as applicable to the administration, or persons charged with the execution of the law. It is, however, in its technical or constitutional meaning “that form of fundamental rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed” (Rapalje, Law Dictionary); and in the latter restricted or concrete sense of the term it is evidently employed in…
1Opinion of the Court
Nokvax,, C. J.
This is an original application for a peremptory writ of mandamus to require the respondent, as auditor of public accounts, to audit and adjust the claim of relator against the state for salary as deputy food commissioner. Belator was appointed to said position by the governor on or about July 1,1899, in pursuance of chapter 35, Laws, 1899. This act is entitled “An act creating a food commission; defining its powers and duties and of the officers and agents thereof; regulating the manufacture and sale of foods including imitation butter and imitation cheese and dairy products;…
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