Legal Opinion
Nowack v. Auditor General
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided January 24, 1928No. Calendar 33,394PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcDonald, J.
The plaintiff seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant to permit him to inspect certain public records in the office of the auditor general pertaining to the expenditure of public money authorized by Act No. 84, Pub. Acts 1927. The act in question empowered the State administrative board to pay out' of the general fund a sum of money not to exceed $25,000 to defray the expenses incident to the entertainment of the 1927 annual conference of the governors of the several States at Mackinac Island, Michigan.
The petition shows that the plaintiff is a citizen of the United States and a…
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