State Ex Rel. Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Henneford

This is an original application by the Northern Pacific Railway Company for a writ of mandate to compel the tax commission of the state of Washington, and the tax commissioners, to forthwith transmit to the relator, the county assessor and the county auditor of Thurston county, certified copies of tax commission order No. 14, which was made and entered by the commission on October 17, 1939.

The relator, as provided by chapter 16, Laws of 1939, p. 42 (Rem. Rev. Stat. (Sup.), § 11241-1 [P. C. § 6882-204a] et seq.), filed with the county assessor of Thurston county a petition, alleging that it…