State ex rel. Moore v. Banks

— This is an original action for writ of mandate to compel defendant, State Treasurer, to issue and sell certain refunding bonds under the provisions of an act of the Seventeenth Session of the Legislature, designated as House Bill 129, Sess. Laws 1923, p. 105. The application for the writ alleges that there is $776,500 of outstanding bonded indebtedness which should be refunded because it would result in a saving to the state. An alternative writ was issued and defendant made his return thereto in which he justified his refusal to act upon the alleged ground that *30the statute is…