State Ex Rel. Farmer v. Austin

In this action, the relator below, W. T. Farmer, as sheriff of Whatcom county, sought a peremptory writ of mandate directing the members of the board of county commissioners of that county to vacate and rescind a resolution, by the terms of which the number of deputies authorized to be employed by the relator in his office as sheriff was reduced from six to four, and requiring the commissioners to audit and allow the pay rolls of the relator for the month of July, 1935, and for all subsequent months. After answer by the county commissioners, the cause was tried to the court, which made…