State ex rel. Teasdale v. Spainhower

This is an original proceeding in mandamus wherein relators, the Governor of the State of Missouri, Joseph P. Teasdale, and Stephen C. Bradford, Commissioner of Ad*304ministration seek to compel the respondent, James I. Spainhower, State Treasurer, to withdraw a stop payment order on a check issued to the St. Louis Board of Education in the amount of $1,343,066.34. We have jurisdiction, Mo.Const. art. IV, § 4.

The facts were stipulated to by the parties. For many years prior to July 1, 1978, the St. Louis School Board of Education operated Harris-Stowe College in the City of St. Louis.…