State Ex Rel. Raines v. City of Seattle

The first named and about sixty other appellants, as relators, and the intervener, as a taxpayer of Seattle, waged this action to compel by mandate the civil service commission of Seattle and the superintendent of the municipal street railways of Seattle to retain in the employ of the city the relators, upon the ground that they were being unlawfully dismissed from employment as trainmen by reason of the unlawful operation of a “veterans’ preference” conferred by charter amendment No. 11 of the civil service rules of Seattle. The intervener alleged as a taxpayer that the threatened dismissal…