State ex rel. Board of Commissioners v. Jamison

This was an application, in the name of the State, by the board of commissioners, of the county of Montgomery, in the lower court, for a writ of mandate against appellee, auditor of Tippecanoe county, to compel him to issue a warrant upon the treasurer of his county, for the payment of money to reimburse Montgomery county for certain expenses and charges paid by it, and growing out of the trial of the cause of the State of Indiana v. William F. Pettit, charged with murder, and tried in the latter county upon a change of venue from the former.

It appears from the facts alleged in the complaint,…