State Ex Rel. Breslin v. Todd

This case comes up on certiorari to review a judgment of dismissal after granting a motion to quash an application for a writ of mandamus. A show cause order had been issued on petition of the relator showing that he is a veteran of the World War; that respondents Taylor, Smith, and Fluent are county commissioners of King county; that, for about five years prior to September 20, 1940, he had been regularly employed by respondents, as such commissioners, as a grader operator at the Bow Lake gravel pit, commissioner’s district No. 2; that others who were not veterans of any war were also there…