Morris v. State ex rel. Brown

The relator is the clerk of Henry county, and sued out a writ of mandamus to compel the appellant, the auditor of that county, to issue a warrant for forty-eight dollars for money expended for the purchase of clothing for an insane man, at the time an inmate of the hospital for the insane. The purchase was made by the clerk upon the requisition of the superintendent of the hospital.

The ruling question in the case is this: Is the county auditor bound to issue his warrant upon a claim of the character described, without its having been presented to and allowed by the board of county…