Grable v. Childers

This action was instituted in the district court of Oklahoma county by Mrs. Wilma Grable, as plaintiff, against C. C. Childers, State Auditor, as defendant, applying for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel said defendant to issue , and deliver to said plaintiff a state warrant in full of her salary as a state employee.

It is conceded that the answer and return of the defendant to the alternative writ correctly states the facts. In said answer and return defendant admits that the plaintiff was an employee of the state of Oklahoma; that she had earned $27 during the month of April, 1935, as…