State ex rel. Collens v. Clinton

The relator prayed for a writ of mandamus ordering the Auditor of Public Accounts to issue to him a warrant for $ 1250, the amount of one quarter’s salary, alleged to be due to the relator as judge of the Seventh District Court of New Orleans, on the thirty-first day of December, 1872, and also for the further sum of $1250 for salary due him on the thirty-first of March, 1873.

*407The Attorney General, for the Auditor, filed an exception that the relator had no cause of action. The court below made the mandamus peremptory to the extent of ordering the Auditor to issue his warrant in favor of the…