State ex rel. City of St. Louis v. Seibert
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. (1) The appropriation in the form in which it was made was a legislative determination that the appropriation was necessary; that there were insane persons in the St. Louis insane asylum who belonged to the state outside of the city of St. Louis, and for whose support it was proper, for the state to provide. The legislature did not appropriate money for the support of the St. Louis insane asylum.
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Mandamus. (1) The appropriation in the form in which it was made was a legislative determination that the appropriation was necessary; that there were insane persons in the St. Louis insane asylum who belonged to the state outside of the city of St. Louis, and for whose support it was proper, for the state to provide. The legislature did not appropriate money for the support of the St. Louis insane asylum. As the appropriation was not for the support of the insane asylum, section 46, article 4, of the constitution has no application. The appropriation vetoed by Governor Phelps purported to be…
1Opinion of the CourtMacfarlane, J.
— Upon the petition of the city of St. Louis an alternative writ of mandamus was issued against respondent, as state auditor, requiring him to show cause why he should not draw warrants “in favor of. the city of St. Louis for the sum of $2,083.33 for the month of January, 1893, pursuant to the provisions of the act of the general assembly of Missouri, approved April 1,1893, and similar warrants for the same amount *428for each of the months of February, March, April, May, June and July, 1893.”
To this writ a general demurrer has been interposed. Under this demurrer it is claimed that section 8, of…
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