State Ex Rel. McKinley Publishing Co. v. Hackmann

This is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel the respondent, the State Auditor, to issue a warrant upon the State Treasury to pay for certain printing and stationery alleged by the relator to have been furnished to the State Highway Commission.

Kespondent filed a return to the alternative writ, and the relator moved for a judgment on the pleadings. This motion admitted directly or impliedly all of the well-pleaded facts in the return and left for consideration only issues of law.

In 1870, (Laws 1870, p. 79) the office of Public Printer was abolished and three state offices, to-wit, the…