Hofmann v. Frohmiller

On February 12, 1935, Walter Hofmann, as Chairman of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, purchased for the use of that body supplies in the sum of $1.06, and three days later presented to the state auditor, Ana Frohmiller, a claim for this sum, properly verified and approved, and requested her to allow it and to draw a warrant in payment of it. Acting upon the advice of the Attorney General that the state was then without a board of pardons and paroles and that payments for salary or expenses to anyone claiming to be a member thereof would be illegal, the auditor refused to comply with this…