State ex rel. Stirrat v. Ross

Application for a writ of mandate, to compel the commissioner of public lands to issue a contract to relators for the sale of lots 2, 3, 4, and 5, in block 15, Ballard, now Seattle, tide lands. It appears that in February, 1909, the board of state land commissioners decided to sell these lots. The lots had theretofore been applied for and appraised and the appraisement approved. The sale was regularly advertised to take place on April 3, 1909. Prior to that date and on March 8, 1909, the legislature passed an act granting a right of way for a street one hundred feet in width across these lots…