California Highway Commission v. Riley

This is an application by the Highway Com-

mission for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent, as state controller, to audit and draw his warrant for the payment of a claim presented to him for such audit and warrant. It is alleged in the petition that on or about August 31, 1922, the California Highway Commission as then constituted entered into a written 'contract with one Pollock (hereinafter referred to, for convenience, as the “first contract”) for the construction of a portion of a state highway in Monterey County between Anderson Canyon and Sur River; that in and by said contract…