State ex rel. Bagley v. Clausen

This is an original application in this court for a writ of mandamus. The relator is the state mine inspector and the respondent the state auditor. This is a companion case to that of State ex rel. Younger v. Clausen, ante p. 241, 190 Pac. 324, which will herein be referred to as the case of the state labor commissioner. The two cases were covered in the same briefs and were argued together. In this case it will not be necessary to do more than examine the powers and duties of the mine inspector as they were defined by law prior to the act of 1919 (Laws of 1919, ch. 130, p. 309), and compare…