State Ex Rel. Smith v. Jones

This is an original mandamus proceeding in this court, wherein the relator, Mrs. Smith, seeks a writ of mandate to compel Judge J ones of the superior court for King county to enter an order dismissing an action pending in his court, in which L. R. Clark is plaintiff and she is one of the defendants, upon the ground that Clark has refused to answer certain interrogatories propounded to him by her counsel in the taking of his deposition in her behalf in that action.

The facts, so far as necessary to be here noticed, may be summarized as follows:

L. R. Clark commenced an action in the superior…