Wiseman v. Boren

BARNES, Justice:

This is an application for this Court to assume original jurisdiction and issue writ of prohibition to prohibit Respondents from transferring further surplus from the State’s General Revenue Fund to a Sinking Fund for the purpose of retiring State bonds without prior legislative appropriation.

Petitioner’s request stems from an announcement by Respondent, Governor David Lyle Boren, that he had ordered the transfer of $80,265,824.66, representing surplus funds that had accrued to the State Treasury as of June 30, 1975, from the General Revenue Fund of the State to a Sinking Fund…