Fawcett

This is an original application for a writ of mandate.

The petition alleges that the Orland Joint Union High School District is indebted to petitioner in the sum of $250 for services as a teacher therein during the months of September and October, 1926; that said district has not sufficient money to its credit in the county treasury to pay such indebtedness; that on the 10th of September, 1926, the county superintendent of schools gave respondent County Treasurer “an estimate of the amount of the school money that would then next be paid into said county treasury, stating the amounts to be apportioned to each school district in the county including said Orland Joint Union High School District and that a copy of said estimate, so far as it relates to said Orland Joint Union High School District is hereunto annexed and marked exhibit ‘A’ and made a part thereof”; that there was then and is now standing to the credit in the county treasury of certain named school districts and certain designated school funds specified amounts aggregating $6,922.60 “not immediately needed to pay any claims against the same respectively”; that the respondent refuses “to transfer to said Orland Joint…