State ex rel. Bartlett v. Forrest

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Soott, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Jefferson county, refusing to make peremptory an alternative writ of mandamus directed to the members of the board of appraisers, then in existence, of shore and tide lands in and for Jefferson county, commanding them to examine, survey and appraise a certain tract of tide lands of the first class at Port Townsend, which the relator claimed the right to purchase. It is claimed upon the part of the state that the land in controversy lies within the limits of a certain street known as…