State ex rel. Wallace v. Superior Court

This is an application in mandamus. Petitioner seeks to compel the superior court of King county to take jurisdictipn of a certain cause and hear it on its merits. The case is an appeal from the justice’s, court of King county, and involves the construction of § 6755, Bal. Code. The appeal was dismissed by the superior court, on motion, because the court held that under the statute the record did not show that the notice of appeal had been filed before it had been served on the adverse party. But it is not necessary for us to go into a discussion of the merits of this motion, for mandamus…