State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Sevier

Prohibition: Relators seek to prohibit Honorable Nike G-. Sevier, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cole County, from proceeding further with a certain mandamus suit pending in said court.

The pertinent facts are, in substance, as follows :

Relator, George C. Johnson, is purchasing agent for the State and as such is authorized by. statute to purchase supplies, materials, equipment, etc., for all departments of' the State. [Laws 1933, p. 410.] Said statute provides that' all purchases shall be based on competitive bids-; that on any purchase where the estimated expenditure shall be two thousánd…