Reeves v. Anderson

*18The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gordon, J.

Respondent instituted this1 proceeding in the superior court of King county, for the purpose of compelling the . appellants—the mayor, aldermen and members of the house of delegates of Seattle, a city of the first class containing a population exceeding twenty thousand — to authorize the calling of an election within said city for the purpose of choosing fifteen freeholders t.o prepare a new charter for said city, by “altering, changing, revising, adding to or’ repealing the existing charter as amended,” in accordance with the prayer of a…