Patrick v. Riley

WASTE, C. J.—

This is an original application for a writ of mandamus to be directed to the respondent as state controller commanding him to 'draw two warrants on the state treasurer in the respective sums of $8.46 and $38.28, to which amounts petitioner claims he is entitled by virtue of the. provisions of an act of the legislature referred to as the “Bovine Tuberculosis Law.” (Stats. 1929, chap. 829, p. 1750.)

Section 10 of the above-entitled act authorizes and empowers the director of agriculture to establish and maintain tuberculosis control areas within the state wherein all dairy animals…