State Ex Rel. Gammons v. Sorlie

This is a mandamus proceeding instituted in the district court of Burleigh county against the members of the State Auditing Board. The relator, Gammons, is secretary of the State Industrial Commission and he brought the proceeding to compel the state auditing board to audit and allow his claim for salary as secretary of the State Industrial Commission for the month of July 1927. The trial court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and the respondents have appealed. The questions presented involve the construction of certain statutory provisions.

In 1919 the legislative assembly created…