Case ID: wash_54/html/0698-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 7510.
    Decided August 19, 1909.]
    The State of Washington, on the Relation of Charles F. Will, Appellant, v. John McKay et al., Respondents.
    
    Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Douglas county, Steiner, J., entered May 6, 1908, upon findings in favor of the defendants, after a trial before the court without a jury, in an action for a writ of mandamus.
    Reversed.
    
      Hannan & Clapp and Arthur McGuire, for appellant.
    
      Sam B. Hill and John W. Hanna, for respondents.
    
      
      Reported in 103 Pac. 482.
    
   Per Curiam.

This action is an application to the superior court of Douglas county by Charles F. Will, for a writ of mandamus requiring the county commissioners of said county to issue a warrant for excess salary alleged to be due relator as county auditor. From a final judgment denying the writ, the relator has appealed.

In pursuance of a stipulation on file, and on the authority of the opinion of this court filed on this date, in cause No. 7506, State ex rel. Maltbie v. Will, ante p. 453, 103 Pac. 479, 104 Pac. 797, the judgment of the superior court is reversed, and the cause remanded with instructions to grant a writ of mandate directing the issuance of a warrant to appellant for additional salary from January 9, 1905, to January 14, 1907, at the rate of $50 per annum. The appellant will recover his costs in this court and in the superior court, including statutory attorney’s fees.