State Ex Rel. Polson Logging Co. v. Martin

This is an original petition to this court by the Poison Logging Company, a domestic corporation, for a writ of mandamus to compel the commissioner of public lands of this state to issue a bill of sale to relator covering the timber on the southeast *4 of section 16, T. 21 N., range 10 west W. M., in Grays Harbor county.

The facts, as disclosed by the petition and respondent’s return thereto, are as follows:

Pursuant to an application filed in the office of the commissioner of public lands for the purchase of the timber on land described above, the timber was cruised, appraised, and advertised…