Bland v. Jordan

LA PRADE, Chief Justice.

This court at the instance of petitioner Wilson R. Bland, post auditor, issued an alternative writ of mandamus directed to respondent Jewel W. Jordan, state auditor, to accept and allow petitioner’s salary claim for the last half of July, 1955, upon the basis of a salary of $8,400 per year, or show cause for not so doing. Respondent by her return to the writ admitted that she had refused the claim upon the basis requested but had offered to accept the claim upon the basis of a salary of $7,200 per year, her position being that the applicable salary for the office of…