Terrill v. City of Tacoma

This suit was instituted in the superior court to restrain the city of Tacoma and its officials from checking and verifying the sufficiency of signatures to a referendum petition on city ordinance No. 11459, granting a bus franchise.

The respondent herein, petitioner in the superior court, contended in his complaint that the petition was not filed a sufficient length of time before the expiration of the thirty day period after the publication of the ordinance prescribed by the city charter, to allow a verification of the signatures thereon to refer the ordinance to a vote of the people; that…