Civil Service Commission v. Auditor General

The plaintiffs, who are the civil service commission of the State of Michigan and the four individual members thereof, who are suing in their official capacity, ask that a writ of mandamus be granted against the auditor general of this State requiring him to pay in full certain disbursements which they have approved. The answer of the auditor general shows for cause a lack of authority on his part, by reason of certain legislation, to draw and issue his warrants on the State treasury for the full sums approved by the commission.

The commission was created by a constitutional amendment, known…