Marshall v. Dunn

This is an appeal from a judgment in mandamus of the Superior Court of Sacramento County, denying the plaintiffs’ petition, that defendant be commanded to draw warrants in favor of plaintiffs for traveling expenses when engaged in contests about public lands between the state and the United States.

The complaint is as follows:—

“And now comes E. C. Marshall, attorney for plaintiffs herein, and respectfully moves this honorable court to issue its mandate against the defendant, J. P. Dunn, state controller, commanding him to issue his warrants against the treasury of said state, as follows: In…