State Ex Rel. Common School District No. 15 v. Sageng

Plaintiff, a common school district of Pennington county, seeks mandamus against defendants as members of the rural credits bureau. They appeal, on a certificate of importance and doubt, from an order overruling their general demurrer to the petition of plaintiff and the alternative writ issued pursuant thereto.

The mandamus wanted is one to compel the bureau to pay plaintiff the “special aid” authorized by L. 1929, p. 315, c. 265, entitled: “An act providing aid to certain school districts and appropriating money therefor out of the rural credit expense fund.” Section 1 of the act is as…