California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Ahlgren v. Carr, 24 Cal.Rptr. 172 (Cal. App. 1962):
'As stated in Burke v. Snively, 208 Ill. 328, 70 N.E. 327, 328: 'In equity the money in the state treasury is the money of the people of the state, and suits by a taxpayer to restrain the misappropriation by public officers of such money to an unauthorized purpose are not suits against the state.'
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