State Ex Rel. Trask v. Gleason

The relators are, respectively, the treasurer and clerk of Grays Harbor county. The appellants are the county commissioners. The latter, in making up the county budget for 1935, allowed the treasurer $13,153.80, and the clerk $5,483.80. The treasurer and clerk filed in the superior court an affidavit for mandamus to compel the commissioners to. increase the amount of their budgets in the sums of $900 and $960, respectively. After a trial on the merits, the court made findings favorable to relators, upon which it entered judgment directing the writ to be issued.

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