State ex rel. Dawson v. Fischer

The county attorney of Wyandotte county resigned. The law provides for the. appointment of his successor by the two judges of the district court. (The State, ex rel., v. Meek, ante, p. 576, 120 Pac. 555.) The judges after consultation failed to agree and the judge of the first division, acting upon the theory that the statute gave him such authority, named James M. Meek. In the case just cited that appointment was held to be unauthorized and ineffectual. When that case was begun the attorney-general also brought the present proceeding, asking a writ of mandamus to require the two judges to…