King County v. Martin

These are proceedings in mandamus. In the first case, relators, in an original action in this court, seek a writ compelling the state social security committee to allocate from state funds a grant-in-aid for public assistance in the sum of $668,177.39. The second case involves an appeal from a judgment of the King county superior court in which that court ordered respondent, Earl Millikin, as county auditor, to issue warrants provided by an emergency resolution passed by the county commissioners of King county. The cases involve the same questions and, by stipulation, have been consolidated…