State ex rel. Smith v. Board of County Commissioners

*851The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The state invokes the original jurisdiction of this court by a motion for an alternative writ of mandamus directing the board of county commissioners of Thomas county to pay a bounty of five cents on each jack rabbit killed in that county.

The defendant board endeavors to meet the issue by an answer in which it admits that since January 30, 1926, it has not paid such bounty, pursuant to a resolution of the board to that effect. The reasons for this attitude of the board are that the general fund of the county is overdrawn, and that it is…