State Ex Rel. Thompson v. City of Seattle

This action in mandamus was instituted praying for reinstatement by relator, and payment of back salary at $9.85 per day from January 31, 1934, as a civil service employee of the board of park commissioners of Seattle. The case was tried to the court without a jury, and although the evidence was undisputed, respondents introducing no testimony except that which was introduced by .relator, we do not entirely agree with the findings made by the trial court.

Under Article XIII, § 2, of the Seattle city charter, as found by the trial court, and as a matter of law (Seattle ex rel. Dunbar v. Dutton,…