State Ex Rel. Wyrick v. City of Ritzville

— This case comes to us on an agreed statement of facts. The city of Ritzville is a municipal corporation of the third class. The present mayor, clerk, treasurer, and four of its councilmen were regularly elected on December 10, 1940, and took office on the first Tuesday in January, 1941. Another of its councilmen was elected in December, 1938, and took office in January, 1939. Two others of its councilmen were appointed on January 7, 1941, and August 10, 1941, respectively, to fill the unexpired four-year terms of two former councilmen who had been elected in 1938 and qualified in 1939. At…