Earhart v. Frohmiller

Petitioners seek a writ of mandamus compelling the State Auditor to allow and the State Treasurer to pay claims for subsistence and lodging expenses in accordance with the provisions of Chap. 16 (H.B. 103). This bill was enacted by the Eighteenth Legislature on February 28, 1947, over the vote of the Governor, with an emergency clause attached. That part of the bill necessary to this opinion reads as follows: “Section 1. Reimbursement of members of legislature. Any member or employee and officer of the legislature, while absent from his usual place of residence in the service of the state…