State ex rel. Troy v. Martin

Both of the above entitled actions were instituted in this court on February 28, 1951, by the relator filing petitions for the issuance of original writs of mandate requiring the respondents, as members of the state finance committee, to refrain from issuing, offering for sale, or selling certain general obligation bonds of the state of Washington, or to show cause, if any they had, why they should not do so.

To the petition in cause No. 31724 there was attached an affidavit of the relator that he brought the action in his official capacity as attorney general for the purpose of de*502termining…