State Ex Rel. City of Charleston v. Sims

Fox, Judge:

The State of West Virginia, at the relation of the City of Charleston, the Town of New Martinsville, the City of Nitro, and the City of Huntington, all municipal corporations, organized and existing under the laws of this State, and who sue in behalf of themselves and all other municipal corporations of this State, invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court in mandamus, and have filed their joint petition herein seeking to compel Edgar B. Sims, Auditor of the State of West Virginia, to honor a requisition made by R. E. Talbott, Treasurer of said State, in the sum of…