State Ex Rel. Catron v. Sims

Riley, Judge:

This is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel Edgar B. Sims, Auditor of the State of West Virginia, to issue a warrant upon the state treasurer for the payment to relator, S. P. Catron, of twelve hundred fifty dollars, for which the Legislature at its Regular Session in 1949 had appropriated in its Budget Bill, enacted into law on March 12,1949. This appropriation was included to satisfy relator’s claim for damages for the alleged wrongful and negligent destruction by fire of relator’s growing “Christmas” trees caused by a hostile fire started and maintained *612along West…