Crosby v. Spokane County

(dissenting) — I dissent because the majority articulates a flawed conception of subject matter jurisdiction. More fundamentally, the majority is unfair to those citizens who successfully appealed from the Hearing Examiner Committee in Spokane County to the Spokane County Board of Commissioners. Crosby failed to notify those citizens of this action and make them parties. This is wrong. I would affirm the Court of Appeals and the trial court and dismiss Crosby’s writ of certiorari.

The first issue is whether failure of the writ applicant to file an affidavit or verification12 in support of a…