State ex rel. Heuston v. Maynard

*133The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mount, J.

— This is'an original application for a writ of mandate to compel the state treasurer to pay the interest upon a warrant issued by the state through its proper officers upon the state normal school fund, in consideration of work done and expenses incurred in the erection of a state normal school building for the Washington State Normal School at New Whatcom. The warrant was drawn pursuant to an act of the legislature, approved March 'T, 1895. Laws 1895, p. 55. The fund upon which it was drawn was created by the first section of the act, which…