State ex rel. Bloomfield v. Weir

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoyt, J.

This was a proceeding by which petitioner sought to compel the secretary of state to certify to the proper officers his name as the regular nominee of the republican party for the office of superior judge for the counties of Clarke, Cowlitz and Skamania. The respondent raises some questions as to the power of this court to control his action in cases of this kind, but the conclusion to which we have come on the merits of the controversy makes it unnecessary for us to determine these questions.

From the petition and the papers filed in the office…