Henderson v. People ex rel. Wingate
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to District Court of Arapahoe County. Proceeding by mandamus against the state auditor to compel him to issue his warrant for a certain legislative appropriation. Hon. John W. Wingate, treasurer of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, was relator, and Hon. John M. Henderson, auditor of the State of Colorado, was respondent below. A peremptory writ of mandamus was awarded against respondent in favor of relator. Respondent seeks a reversal of the judgment by writ of error.
1Per curiam
By an act of the general assembly, approved March 15, 1889, it was provided that a commission should be appointed to establish and maintain a Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home in this state for the care and treatment of honorably discharged soldiers, etc. Section 5 of said act is as follows:
“ The sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of said commission for the erection and maintenance of said home for the year 1889 and the year 1890, of which sum…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re Appropriations by General AssemblySupreme Court of Colorado · 1889
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