State ex rel. Younger v. Clausen

This is an original application in this court for a writ of mandamus. The relator is the state labor commissioner and the respondent the state auditor. The relator claims the right to have issued to him certain salary warrants by virtue of chapter 130, p. 309, of the Laws of 1919. The relator’s term as *242commissioner of labor of the state of Washington began on April 3, 1917, and under the statute, Rem. Code, § 6550, his term of office was for a period of four years. The salary of the office, at the time of his appointment, was $2,400 per annum. It thus appears that, at the time the act of 1919…