State Ex Rel. Rickey v. Sims

Kenna, Judge:

This is a mandamus proceeding by which the relator, J. W. Rickey, prosecuting attorney of Marshall County, seeks to have the Auditor draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer and the State Treasurer honor that warrant to meet a salary alleged to be due him from the State Treasury by reason of a provision appearing in Chapter 162 of the Acts of the Legislature of 1927, not embodied in the recodification of this State’s general statutory law enacted in 1931. The rule was awarded, respondents appeared, demurred to the petition, and filed no answer, so that the sole question involved…