Moore v. Walley

During the period of time beginning January 1, 1925, and ending November 1,1926, there was an unprecedented increase of business in the state land office, so much so that, in order to transact the same without detriment to the public service and without loss to the state, appellant, then and now the state land commissioner, found it necessary to employ additional labor in said office. For this additional help he paid out the sum of one thousand thirty nine dollars and fifty cents, and, at the succeeding session of the legislature, an act was passed to reimburse him, the said act being chapter…