State Ex Rel. Ashing v. Davis

Roy Ashing instituted a certiorari proceeding in the superior court for Pierce county to obtain review and reversal of an order of the civil service commission of the city of Tacoma dismissing relator from his position as truck driver in the department of public welfare of that city, which position he held as a civil service employee. Upon the issuance of an alternative writ the members of the civil service commission appeared by demurrer to the affidavit and application of relator for the writ and by motion to quash the writ. The court sustained the demurrer and granted the motion to quash.…