State ex rel. Ledwith v. Brian

The auditor of public accounts drew a state warrant in favor of relator for $35 to pay him for services as an instructor in the law department of the university of Nebraska and the state treasurer refused to countersign it for the reason there Avas no legislative appropriation available for its payment. In a single sentence of relator’s application for mandamus he asks relief as fob *42lows: “Relator prays a writ of mandamus requiring the respondent to countersign the warrant and place to the credit of the university for the biennium ending March 31, 1909, the sum of $946,017.96.” Relief for the…