State Ex Rel. Laughlin v. Washington State Bar Ass'n

— Relator, Robert V. Laughlin, a colonel in the United States army, instituted the present proceeding by filing an application for a writ of certiorari, to be directed to the board of governors of the Washington state bar association, and for an interlocutory order, directed to the same agency, requiring it and its officers to show cause why his application for admission to the bar of the state of Washington, theretofore filed with the secretary of the bar association in October, 1943, should not be granted.

We consider the procedure adopted in this court by relator as erroneous for the reason…