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- Title: Collins V. Riley
- Author : Supreme Court Of California In Bank
- Release Date : January 02, 1944
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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GIBSON, C. J. -- Petitioner, an assemblyman, seeks a writ of mandate to compel the State Controller to approve a claim for traveling expenses, and to draw a warrant for the amount so approved, in accordance with section 352 of the Political Code which, as amended in 1943, provides that "all Members of the Legislature when attending regular, special or extraordinary session of the Legislature shall be entitled to receive in addition to their salaries, their actual necessary traveling expenses." No question is raised as to the form of the claim or as to the necessity or propriety of petitioner's expenditure of $9.10 for hotel room and meals, and the controller's refusal to approve the claim is based upon the sole ground that section 352, insofar as it authorizes the payment of "actual necessary traveling expenses" to members of the Legislature,