Parks v. Hays

Bissell, J.,

delivered tlie opinion of the court.

Presumably on a sufficient and proper petition filed by the appellee, the district court issued its alternative writ of mandamus to the then state auditor, Clifford C. Parks, directing him to show cause why a peremptory writ should not go, commanding him to issue a warrant for $649.32, as and for money due Hays as an assistant inspector of -metalliferous mines.

The attorney general on behalf of the' officer who represents the state on this appeal presents a number of objections to the alternative writ as a sufficient statement of a cause of…