Show I I MANDAMUS LOOMS LOOMS' AGAINST AUDITOR Land Board W Would QuId Test Prerequisites of St State te teOffice I Office Threatened mandamus proceedings against Joseph Ririe state auditor by bythe bythe bythe the state board of land commissioners comprised of R. R H. H Jones of He Heber er City R. R E. E Davis of ot Willard N 1 P. P Ipson of Beaver Dr M. M 1 1 R. R Stewart of Salt Lake and Arthur Kuhn of ot Ogden materialized further today when the preparation of at the papers In the land office was c continued The action j is isy being taken by the land board in an effort to compel Mr fine Rine to issue J- J warrant for tor the purchase of ot of Orem town bonds Mr Kuhn secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of ot the board stated that the papers papers papers pa pa- pers would woud go to Dan B B. Shields at attorney attorney attorney at- at torney general before night Mr Shields' Shields services have been ob obtained oh- oh tamed by the land board Mr Ririe Ride declined to to state whether he would employ an attorney to represent his side of the case case to the supreme court Parties concerned in the matter stated that supreme court proceedings were not being entered into with an anu u unfriendly friendly spirit but that the chief desire was to establish a precedent on this particular phase of the laws of ot Utah The The case is said to be without without without with with- out parallel in the history of ot the state stata The mandamus proceedings arise from that section of ot the state laws which specify what s se securities the state auditor shall issue requisitions for Mr Ririe declared that he firmly believed that It would be unlawful for him to issue a requisition to have the funds of at the state used sed to purchase the Orem town bonds and for that reason he is willing to take the matter into the supreme court If for tori nothing else than thana a definite Interpretation of the law |