State Ex Rel. Adkins v. Sims

KeNNa, Judge:

This mandamus proceeding was instituted by the State at the relation of Roy H. Adkins, Administrator of the Estate of Roy Herbert Adkins, deceased, for the purpose .of having the Auditor required to approve a requisition addressed to him by the State Road Commissioner and based upon a general appropriation in the amount of $3500.00 in favor of the relator embraced within the 1945 Act of the Legislature known as “The Budget Bill”. It is the relator’s position that the appropriation was made to discharge a finding of the .Court of Claims upon a claim filed by the relator in order…