State Ex Rel. Beffa v. Superior Court

Relator filed in this court an affidavit and application for an alternative writ of mandate directing respondent, a judge of the superior court for Whatcom county, to change the venue of a divorce action pending in that court to the superior court for Pierce county, or else to show cause why he should not do so. Upon the preliminary showing made on the application, the Chief Justice signed an alternative writ, presented by relator’s counsel, directing respondent forthwith to grant relator’s motion for such change of venue, or else to show cause on a day specified in the writ why he had failed…