State Ex Rel. Browning v. Blankenship

This is an original proceeding in mandamus in which the petitioner, the Honorable Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Attorney General of West Virginia, seeks a writ to require the defendant, the Honorable C. A. Blankenship, Clerk of the House of Delegates of West Virginia, to publish the true Budget Act passed by the Legislature of West Virginia at its regular session, 1970, to include the amounts as appropriated by the Legislature without the reductions made by the Governor, and to furnish the petitioner true copies of the Act as so published.

Upon the petition and its exhibits filed March 3, 1970,…