State Ex Rel. Armontrout v. Smith

This is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel the State Auditor to approve relator’s claim and issue a warrant therefor. The question involved is the validity of a deficiency appropriation.

The parties have filed an agreed statement of facts. The Sixty-first General Assembly appropriated $25,000.00 for the 1941-1942 biennium to pay indemnities to owners of cattle, slaughtered as reactors to Bang’s disease (contagious abortion), to cooperate with the program of the United States Department of Agriculture for controlling this disease. Relator, a farmer, in April, 1942 disinfected his…