Cory v. Graybill

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The action is one of mandamus to compel the state live-stock sanitary commissioner to issue orders for sums of money to which the plaintiff claims he is entitled on account of certain cattle killed by order of the commissioner after having been tested for tuberculosis, and to compel the board of county commissioners to accept and pay such orders. The livestock sanitary commissioner resists the action on the ground that the cattle killed were brought into the state in violation of law and of a rule duly promulgated governing the admission of…