Vandenberg v. Welker

GIVENS, Justice.

Respondent, as a resident citizen and taxpayer of the State and the duly elected and qualified representative from Boundary County in the 32nd session of the Idaho Legislature, filed April 6, 1953, a petition for writ of mandate to compel appellants, Welker as chief clerk, and Schwiebert as assistant chief clerk, of the House of Representatives of that session, to deliver to the Secretary of State (as we interpret the petition) the daily journal entries of the House for the 16th, 17th and 18th legislative days, as the permanent journals as of those days.

An alternative writ was…