State ex rel. Roberts v. Mayor of Lincoln

Lake, Ch. J.

This is an original application to this court for a peremptory writ of mandamus against the mayor, council and clerk, of the city of Lincoln. The object of the writ is to compel the mayor and council to audit and allow a claim against said city in favor of the relator for services rendered by him as city engineer, amounting to two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; and when so allowed to require the clerk to draw a warrant in his favor, for that amount, upon the city treasury.

Our statute regulating the issuance of this writ, requires the motion therefor to be made upon an…