State ex rel. Carroll v. Superior Court
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, French, J., entered October 8, 1920, directing the issuance of a writ of mandamus to compel the relator to register an applicant ¿s a voter, after a hearing to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMain, J.
One W. J. Brown brought an action in mandamus in the superior court for the purpose of compelling the relator, H. W. Carroll, as comptroller of the city of Seattle, to register him as a voter in that city. The trial resulted in a judgment directing a writ to issue as prayed for; from this judgment, the cause is brought here for review.
W. J. Brown is a man sixty-one years of age. He was born in Scotland and came to the United States with his mother in the year 1863. His father had preceded them to this country the year before and had settled in the state of Pennsylvania. Since attaining his…
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