State ex rel. Wiesenthal v. Denny
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from Superior Court, King County. Action on the relation of P. V. Wiesenthal for a writ of mandate against the members of the city council of the city of Seattle, to compel said city council, as a canvassing board, to declare him elected a delegate to the city council from the Third ward of said city, at the election held March 8,1892.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Stiles, J. —
The constitution, art. 11, § 10, provides that the freeholders’ charter of any city of the first class may be amended “by proposals therefor submitted by the legislative authority of such city to the electors thereof at any general election after notice of said submission, published as above specified (Wade v. Tacoma, ante, p. 85), and ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon.” Subdivision 38 of § 520, Gen. Stat., contains the only legislative reference to such amendment, by enumerating as among the express powers of…
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