State Ex Rel. White v. Douglas

(concurring) — While I concur in the result of the majority opinion, I feel that, in justice to the trial court, some explanation should be made of certain language, used by the present writer, in the case of State ex rel. O’Brien v. Superior Court, 173 Wash. 679, 24 P. (2d) 117, upon which the trial court no doubt relied, and upon which other judges of the superior court, and attorneys as well, may have relied in other cases. The language to which I refer is that portion of the O’Brien case appearing on page 684, volume 173, of Washington Reports, and on page 118, volume 24, of Pacific…