Legal Opinion
Morton v. McDonald
Washington Supreme Court
Decided January 27, 1953No. 32342PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment restraining a recall election, argued in this court January 22, 1953. This is an emergency matter of public concern, to be speedily heard and determined. RCW 29.82.160; cf. Rem. Rev. Stat., § 5363.
Certain voters of the city of Cle Elum, desiring to recall the mayor of that city, filed in the office of the city clerk sixteen charges against him, as required by RCW 29.82.010' (cf. Rem. Rev. Stat., §§ 5350, 5351).
It then became the duty of the clerk, if the acts complained of were acts of malfeasance or misfeasance by the mayor while in office or violations of…
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- Latimer v. Western MacHinery ExchangeWashington Supreme Court · 1952
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