Shields v. Bennett
West Virginia Supreme Court
This was an original application to this Court, by the petitioners Joseph Shields and A. A. Preston, to award to them a peremptory mandamus against Edward A* Bennett, then Auditor of State, to compel him to issue his warrant on the Treasurer of State, in favor of the petitioners, for the sum of $229.50, the amounts of premiums on several policies of insurance that had been theretofore effected by the Secretary of the “ State House Company,” on the building then occupied by…
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This was an original application to this Court, by the petitioners Joseph Shields and A. A. Preston, to award to them a peremptory mandamus against Edward A* Bennett, then Auditor of State, to compel him to issue his warrant on the Treasurer of State, in favor of the petitioners, for the sum of $229.50, the amounts of premiums on several policies of insurance that had been theretofore effected by the Secretary of the “ State House Company,” on the building then occupied by the several officers of State, required, by law, to keep their offices at the Seat of Government, and the two houses of…
1Opinion of the Court
Hofemau, Judge,
delivering the opinion of the Court:
On the 20th day of January, 1874, Shields and Preston filed their petition in this Court, in which they represent ;
That, by an act passed by the Legislature on the 7th day of April, 1873, an appropriation of $10,000 was *77made for the civil contingent fund for the fiscal year ending on the 30th day of September 1874; and an ap-“ propriation of $600 was made to insure the capítol building and State library, to be paid out of the civil contingent fund : That on the loth day of November, 1873, the appropriation for insurance had not been…
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