State ex rel. Stratton v. Maynard

This is an application for a writ of mandate, made hy respondent, who is attorney general, to compel the state treasurer of the state of "Washington to receive the amount recovered in a judgment, which the state of Washington obtained against the city of Seattle, less ten per cent of the amount of said judgment, which has been retained by the attorney general, and which he claims he is entitled to under the provisions of the law. This money was recovered in an action brought by the attorney general, claiming the same to be due the state on account of liquor licenses, collected by said city of…