State ex rel. Lynch v. Fairley

These actions are brought here by relators, seeking a review and reversal of judgments of the superior court for Spokane county, denying mandamus to compel the city council of that city to order a recall election, submitting to the voters the question of the recall of two of its councilmen, under the provisions of its charter. The superior court denied the relief prayed for, upon the ground that the recall provisions of the Spokane charter are superseded by the provisions of the amendment to the state constitution of 1912, being §§ 33 and 34 of art. 1 thereof, and chapter 146, Laws of 1913,…