January v. Riley

The petitioner herein applies for a writ of mandate, to be directed against the respondent herein, as Controller of the State of California, commanding him to issue a salary warrant, drawn on the state treasury to the petitioner, for the sum of $555.97, the sum being alleged to be the salary due him for his services during the month of July, 1931, as a member of the board of pilot commissioners, of which board the petitioner has been a member since the twenty-eighth day of February, 1929, having been duly appointed and commissioned as such member thereof by the Governor of California, with…