Hart v. Grays Harbor County

George W. A. Hart made application June 11, 1935, to the county commissioners of Grays Harbor county, of which he was a resident, for a blind pension, pursuant to the provisions of Laws of 1935, chapter 106, p. 259. (While not material in the case, we may call attention, parenthetically, to the fact that chapter 106 was repealed by the 1937 legislature, and provision made for relief of the blind directly by the state itself.) On the failure of the commissioners to act favorably upon his application, he applied to the superior court for a writ of mandate directing the county and its…