Phillips
Board of Supervisors v. Phillips
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Draper, J.
By this mandamus proceeding, petitioner board seeks to compel the county auditor to issue a warrant for $16.45 in favor of a service station operator who, pursuant to purchase orders issued by the county welfare director, furnished gasoline for transportation of three indigents for medical treatment. Judgment was for respondent auditor, and petitioners appeal.
Under the findings, there is no question that the three items are a proper charge against the county. Presentation of the claim was timely, and it was approved by the board of supervisors September 15, 1959. The issue is as to form of the claim.
The trial court found the form defective for failure to state the information required by subdivisions (a), (c), (d), and (g) of Government Code, section 29700. This general finding, however, is negated by a specific finding that the claim was presented in the form incorporated in the petition. Attached to that claim, and therefore a part of it, are sales slips which give all this information except place of travel and mileage. The welfare director’s purchase orders specified the place to which each indigent was to be trans *817 ferred for treatment. It is a simple matter to…