State v. Hunsicker
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; H. E. Brunot, Judge. Suit by the State against Henry Hunsicker and another. From a judgment dismissing the suit on an exception of no cause of action, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
PROVOSTY, O. J.
After defendant’s retirement from the office of State Treasurer it became necessary for the state to incur $4,-771.73 of expense in causing the State Treasurer’s books for part of the time he was in office to be posted and audited; and this suit is to recover of him and of the surety on his official bond that amount, as being the necessary cost of work which it was the duty of the Treasurer to do while in office, and which he failed to do.
By Acts 29 and 38 of 1920 the Governor was authorized to have this work done, and an appropriation was made to defray the expense of the…
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