State Ex Rel. State Finance Committee v. Yelle

Application has been made by the state finance committee for a writ of mandate to compel the state auditor to cause a warrant to be drawn against the permanent school fund in the amount of five hundred fifty thousand dollars in payment for general obligation bonds to be issued by Pacific county hospital district No. 1. The auditor has demurred to the application.

The act authorizing the creation of public hospital districts is chapter 264, p. 841, of the Laws of 1945 (Rem. Supp. 1945, § 6090-30 et seq.). Four sections only of that act require consideration here.

Section 6 is an enumeration of…