Commonwealth Ex Rel. v. Lewis, Aud. Gen.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

The Commonwealth, by its attorney general, filed in the court below a petition alleging that the proper heads of several departments of the state government had sent to the auditor general, the defendant named in the proceedings, a number of requisitions for the payment, from legal appropriations, of certain lawfully incurred obligations due to creditors and employees of the State; that defendant had “failed and refused to settle and authorize [their] payment......[or] to enter the same in his books and to submit them to the state treasurer for revision and…