Court Opinion

ID: 9865094
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 16:23:28.418959+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:37:17.185191
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Butler,
concurring.
I concur in the reversal of the judgment. The charter, quoted in the main opinion, makes it the duty of the council to provide for the payment of “such other expenses as may be necessarily incurred in carrying out the provisions of this article. ’ ’ If the commission should incur such necessary expenses in the performance of its duties and the city and county should refuse to pay the same, those entitled to compensation could recover judgment therefor in an action against the municipality. Such remedy would be adequate; and where there exists an adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law, mandamus will not lie. The commission, it seems to me, is not entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the inclusion in the budget of estimated items of expense that the commission believes that it will incur.