State ex rel. White v. Board of State Land Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

White, J.

This matter comes on for final determination upon the application of the relator for a writ of prohibition against the board of state land commissioners, *701which writ has heretofore issued, and is now returnable. The relator briefly claims that heretofore, and while he was a taxpayer in the town of Cosmopolis, Chehalis county, and engaged in the lumbering and shipping business along the water front of the harbor area of said town, Eugene Bell and W. H. Abel made a written request of the respondent board for permission to lease from the state…