State ex rel. Birmingham v. Hackmann
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. (1) It is the duty of the Governor to appoint a State Game and Fish Commissioner who shall hold his office for a term of four years, receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly out of the Game Protection Fund. R. S. 1909, sec. 6557. (2) “The Game and Fish Commissioner may provide and maintain a suitable office and may maintain a clerk when necessary.
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Mandamus. (1) It is the duty of the Governor to appoint a State Game and Fish Commissioner who shall hold his office for a term of four years, receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly out of the Game Protection Fund. R. S. 1909, sec. 6557. (2) “The Game and Fish Commissioner may provide and maintain a suitable office and may maintain a clerk when necessary. At the end of each calendar month he shall file with the State Auditor an itemized statement under oath, of all sums of money r actually and necessarily expended by him in the discharge of his official…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
This is an original proceeding by mandamus. The facts are few and simple and stand admitted, in as much as the respondent rests his case upon a demurrer to relator’s petition, which stands for the alternative writ.
Relator is the State Game and Fish Commissioner of Missouri. Respondent is the State Auditor. Relator, at the time of his appointment to the office of State Game and Fish Commissioner, resided at the city of St. James in the county of Phelps, and thence forward has continued to reside there. He established no residence in Jefferson City, but did establish an office there, in which…
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