State ex rel. Townsend Gas & Electric Light Co. v. Superior Court

The opinion of the conrt was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

This is a proceeding in mandamus to compel the superior court to take jurisdiction of a contempt proceeding to enforce a judgment of that court wherein the relator was plaintiff and one D. H. Hill, as mayor, and one August Dudenhauser, as clerk, respectively, of the city of Port Townsend, were defendants. The court below in that proceeding directed that a writ of mandate issue to compel the defendants to issue and deliver to plaintiff current expense fund warrants of said city to pay a judgment against said city theretofore rendered and a…