Gillette v. People Ex Rel. Rice

The district court, by its judgment, ordered the issuance óf a peremptory writ of mandamus, commanding C. P. Gillette, as, state entomologist, to issue to D. Gover Rice a license to act as county pest inspector of Mesa county. Gillette contends that in doing so the court committed reversible error.

In 1927 the Legislature passed the State Entomologist Act (S. L., ch. 113, p. 377). The office of state entomologist is created. It is enacted that the persons who may be employed under the act, “aside from the state entomologist and his deputies, shall be county pest inspectors and their deputies,…