State Ex Rel. Giles v. Bonar

Calhoun, Judge:

In this proceeding in mandamus instituted in this Court, James L. Giles, as the petitioner, seeks to require R. L. Bonar, Superintendent of the West Virginia Department of Public Safety, as the respondent, to issue a requisition directed to the State Auditor for -the payment to the petitioner of the sum of $6,117.53, which sum he alleges is the proper amount of overtime compensation earned by him while he was previously employed as a member of the Department of Public Safety, which hereafter in this opinion may be referred to merely as the Department.

The basic question…