State Ex Rel. Smith v. Bohannan

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• noting, in a contractual dispute, that the state is a distinct legal entity with the power to sue and be sued
• noting, in a contractual dispute, that the state is a distinct legal entity with the power to sue and be sued
• finding no impermissible splitting of a cause of action in state's quo warranto action because the state is a separate legal entity that has power to sue
• finding no impermissible splitting of a cause of action in state’s quo warranto action because the state is a separate legal entity that has power to sue
• “It is, we believe, accepted without dissent that public officers must have no personal interest in transactions with the government which they represent.”
• “Courts will not read into a statute something which is not within the manifest intent of the legislature as gathered from the statute itself.”

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