State Ex Rel. Goshorn v. Johnson

Litz, President :

The relator, P. H. Goshorn, seeks a peremptory writ of mandamus compelling the respondent W. S. Johnson, State Treasurer, to honor a warrant in the sum of $200.00 drawn by John C. Bond, as auditor, on a State fund designated “Salary for clerk hire to Board of Finance”, for alleged services rendered by the relator in behalf of the Board of Finance during the month of February, 1925.

Chapter 8, Acts of the Legislature 1925, known as “the new State depository law”, was enacted for the purpose (stated in the enacting clause) of “amending and re-enacting sections one, two and three…