State Ex Rel. the Bookstore v. Potts

This is an original application in this court for a writ of mandamus to compel the state treasurer to pay a warrant drawn upon the capitol building construction fund for the sum of seventy-two dollars and fifty cents, the purchase price of an office desk to be used as a part of the furnishings of the administrative and legislative building, now nearing completion at the state capital. While the amount involved is small, the case really presents the larger question of whether the six hundred thousand dollars, appropriated by the legislature out of the capitol building construction fund for…