Williams v. Tompkins

This is an appeal prosecuted from a judgment denying to appellant a writ of mandamus against appellee as auditor of the city of Dallas and sought to compel appellee as such auditor to issue and countersign a proper warrant to pay the amount of an award made to her in compensation for personal injuries. As to the allegations upon which appellant predicated her right to the relief sought, it is only necessary to reproduce the following, viz. that the injuries received by her were in consequence of having been run over by a motorcycle officer of the city of Dallas on September 6, 1926; that a…