State ex rel. Carpenter v. Hastings
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPLICATION POR MANDAMUS. On the 22d of November, 1859, S. D. Carpenter filed in the supreme court a relation against Samuel D. Hastings, the treasurer of the state, avering that one James Ross was the contractor to do the public printing; that on the 19th of July, 1859, the Bank Comptroller ordered from Ross, for the use of his office, 125 quires of blanks of the statement of the condition of the banks of the state, on medium paper, printed on both sides; (the order is set…
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APPLICATION POR MANDAMUS. On the 22d of November, 1859, S. D. Carpenter filed in the supreme court a relation against Samuel D. Hastings, the treasurer of the state, avering that one James Ross was the contractor to do the public printing; that on the 19th of July, 1859, the Bank Comptroller ordered from Ross, for the use of his office, 125 quires of blanks of the statement of the condition of the banks of the state, on medium paper, printed on both sides; (the order is set forth at length); that Ross printed and furnished the blanks under his contract to do the public printing. On the 15th…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Paine, J.
This was an application for a mandamus to compel the treasurer to pay an account for printing which had been audited and allowed by the Secretary of State. The Attorney General, on behalf of the Treasurer, filed a motion to quash the alternative writ, upon the ground that it appears from the relation that the account was not a legal claim against the state.
The facts set forth are that the Bank Comptroller ordered the printing of twenty-five quires of the statement of the condition of the banks for the use of that department; that they were printed accordingly, and the…
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