Smith v. Board of State Auditors

The relator’s petition is filed in this case to obtain the writ of mandamus to compel the respondent to allow his claim for $100, State bounty, under Act No. 23, Laws of 1864.

Petitioner shows that he enlisted in Company H, twenty-third regiment Michigan volunteer infantry, on September 3, 1864; that he was duly credited to the township of Watertown, where he was enrolled, and where he resided at the time of his enlistment, on the quota of said township, under a call of the President made after the 1st day of January, 1864.

He first applied to this Court for a writ of mandamus to compel the…