Cooper v. Hindley

Under the initiative power reserved in the freeholders’ charter, certain electors of the city of Spokane filed a petition with the city clerk, praying and requesting that certain proposed amendments to the city charter be submitted to the people. It is alleged that, notwithstanding the charter imposes a mandatory duty upon the commissioners of the city to call an election within thirty days after filing the petition, for the purpose of submitting the proposed amendments to the whole electorate of the city, the commissioners, the defendants, have wholly neglected, failed, and refused to call…