State Ex Rel. Troy v. Yelle

This matter came before this court on an original application of relators, filed November 1, 1946, for an alternative write of mandate to require Cliff Yelle, as auditor of the state of Washington, to issue and deliver to each of the relators, in payment of their salaries as members of the Washington commission on interstate cooperation for the month of October, 1946, the necessary warrants, as prescribed by chapter 195, Laws of 1945, p. 565 (Rem. Supp. 1945, § 10964-50 et seq.), or to show cause why he had not done so. The respondent demurred to the application, and thereby placed in issue…