State ex rel. Wheeler v. Bentley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The state, on the relation of H. Y. Wheeler, as treasurer of the library board of Wichita, brings this action in mandamus to compel the city commission to approve his bond and to require the city treasurer to turn over to him the library fund in his hands.

The material averments are that pursuant to chapter 122 of the Laws of 1915 the commission, on April 5, 1915, adopted a resolution to maintain and govern the city library thereafter under the provisions of chapter 121 of the Laws of 1903 and acts amendatory of and supplemental thereto; that a…