State ex rel. McKenzie v. McBride

This is an original application for a writ of mandamus against the defendant, as state treasurer. The relator states that there is now in the state treasury a certain amount of money, accrued from leasehold of school lands of the state, subject to apportionment and division among the several counties of the state; and that the defendant refuses to pay out the said money *103upon the apportionment made by the relator, according to the enumeration of the youth of the said several counties.

The refusal of the defendant to credit this money as demanded, for the support and maintenance of the conn mon…