Macfarlane v. Damon

Opinion op the Court by

McCully, J.: Dole, J., Dissenting.

The petitioner for the writ of mandamus alleges that the respondent, Samuel M. Damon, is the Minister of Finance, and as‘such has charge of the disbursements of the Public Treasury; that in the appropriation bill for the current biennial period there was appropriated for the payment of His Majesty’s Chamberlain the sum of six thousand dollars. That during said period, to wit, on October 1st, 1888, His Majesty appointed under the great seal of the Kingdom and commissioned the' *20petitioner his Chamberlain, and that the petitioner has since…