STATE EX INF. DANFORTH v. MERRELL

No. 59075.

530 S.W.2d 209 (1975)

STATE of Missouri ex inf. John C. DANFORTH, Attorney General, Relator, v. Norman L. MERRELL et al., Members, State Fiscal Affairs Committee, and J. Neil Nielsen, Commissioner of Administration, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

November 25, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen. of Mo., Walter Nowotny and C. B. Burns, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., for relator.

Cullen Coil, Carson, Monaco, Coil & Riley, P.C., Jefferson City, for respondents Merrell, and others.

Charles E. Valier, Jefferson City, for respondent Nielson.


HENLEY, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in quo warranto by the State on the information of the Attorney General (informant). The primary question presented is whether respondents have authority to change, alter or amend the purpose for which money appropriated by the general assembly may be used. We hold they do not.

The background out of which this case arose is as follows. In August, 1972, the people adopted an amendment of Article IV of the constitution...

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