State ex rel. Zent v. Nichols
Washington Supreme Court
Original applications filed in the supreme court, October 3d and 5th, 1908, for writs of prohibition or mandamus -to the secretary of state. AlsoJ application for a writ of certiorari on behalf of the relator White, to review a judgment of the superior court for King county, Rice, J., entered October 5, 1908, upon sustaining a demurrer to the petition, dismissing an application for a writ of mandamus to the county auditor.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
In these proceedings the several relators named assail the constitutionality of the act of March 15, 1907, known as the “Primary Election Law.” Laws 1907, p. 457. While the questions presented are not the same in all the proceedings, they present many common questions, and can best be considered by treating the several proceedings as one, noticing under each separate title only those questions applicable to that particular proceeding. It is proper to *518mention, also, that the exigencies of the case require an immediate decision, and that it is for this reason that our discussion of the…
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