46 Mo. 326 | Mo. | 1870
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus against the State auditor requiring that officer to draw his warrant in favor of the State lunatic asylum, in accordance with the requirements of an appropriation act passed March 23, 1870 (Sess. Acts 1870, p. 10). The petition shows that the managers of the asylum have drawn their requisition for the fund appropriated agreeably to the terms of the act; that'the auditor nevertheless refuses to draw his warrant, and that the managers are consequently without the means of making the purchases and improvements authorized by law.
Peremptory writ ordered.