State Ex Rel. Brown v. Warnock

Arthur Brown, as mayor of the town of Marysville, a municipal corporation of the fourth class, filed a petition in the superior court for Snohomish county, praying for an order directing the prosecuting attorney for that county to institute the necessary proceedings to determine by what authority Phil G. Warnock was exercising the functions of town attorney of the town of Marysville.

In answer to a show cause order served upon him, the prosecuting attorney appeared and demurred to the petition upon the grounds that same did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action and that…