State ex rel. City of Bremerton v. Yakey

This is an original application for a writ of mandate to require the respondent to request the governor of the state of Washington to call another judge of the superior court of the state to Kitsap county, to hear and try certain cases, pending in the superior court for that county, wherein it is claimed the respondent is disqualified to act as trial judge. The respondent has made a very full, and complete return to the alternative writ; and upon a careful consideration of the same, we are satisfied that the litigants and attorneys in the superior court for that county have not been seriously…