Cramer v. Supervisors of Sacramento

Citations

• 18 Cal. 384
• 1861 Cal. LEXIS 203

Syllabus

<p>A petition for mandamus, to compel the President of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of Sacramento to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for audited claims against the city school fund, must, under the sixty-seventh section of the Consolidation Act of 1858, (Stat. 287) aver that there is money in the treasury applicable to such claims. The President has no power to draw the warrant unless the money is in the treasury.</p>