State Ex Rel. Haas v. Stone

THOMAS, Justice.

The petition was for mandamus to compel payment of salary of an official alleged to be due. There was a judgment sustaining demxxrrer and dismissing the petition and the taxing of petitioner.with the costs.

The grounds of demurrer are to the effect that there was no law irx force which made it the duty of appellee, as Treasurer of Mobile County, to honor the warrant in this suit.

The decision of this, case depends on the answer to the question of whether Section XXIV of the General Acts of 1939, Acts 1939, pp. 178-189, which was approved March 15, 1939, and which reads as…