Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Mann

This is a mandamus proceeding, instituted directly in this . Court by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York, a foreign life insurance company, duly licensed to do business in this State, as relator, against Honorable Gerald C. Mann, Attorney General of Texas, and Honorable George H. Sheppard, State Comptroller of Texas, to compel them to approve a certain money claim of relator against the State of Texas. The facts are undisputed; therefore only law questions are involved.

The Forty-seventh Legislature of this State made an appropriation to pay this insurance company the sum of…