State ex rel. Forstell v. Otis

This is an action in mandamus. The petition alleges that the petitioner is the regularly elected councilman from the second ward of the city of Olympia and that he holds a certificate of election, under which he took his seat and represented his ward from the time of his election in 1920 until some time in January, 1924, at which time the mayor of the city refused to recognize the petitioner as councilman or to allow him to perform his duties as such, although his term had not yet expired, giving as his reason that the petitioner had moved his residence from the second ward. There are other…