State ex rel. Davis v. Cornell
Nebraska Supreme Court
Original application for mandamus to require the respondent to issue a warrant to the relator for certain money allowed her as trustee of the Home for the Friendless.
1Opinion of the CourtSullivan, J.
The relator, Mrs. A. M. Davis, as trustee of the Society of the Home for the Friendless, exhibited to the auditor of public accounts a claim for $6,017.31 against the state and demanded that the same be examined and adjusted as required by law. The auditor, after some delay, considered and allowed the claim; but the secretary of state, to whom it was presented on August 3, 1899, refused to approve it. Afterwards, however, the district court of Lancaster county, by a peremptory mandamus, commanded him to approve it, and he did so. The present action was then commenced to require respondent to…
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