State ex rel. Rochford v. Superior Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J. —

The relator is the prosecuting attorney of Yakima county; the respondent, Hon. Solomon Smith, is the superior judge of Klickitat county, and, by reason of the disqualification of Hon. Carroll B. Graves, superior judge of Yakima county, to try a certain cause, entitled Benton et al. v. Johncox et al., Judge Smith was, in December last, called to preside at the trial of that cause. The cause thus on trial is a civil action, to which neither the state nor Yakima county is a party. On the 18th day of December the court made an order directing…