249 P. 996 | Wash. | 1926
This is an original application in this court for a writ of mandamus to compel the state land commissioner to issue the relator a lease for the extraction of petroleum and natural gas from state lands. In State ex rel. Goodwin v. Savidge,
"The Attorney General, appearing upon behalf of respondent, has demurred upon the ground that the application should have been filed in the superior court in the first instance, relying upon State ex rel. Ottesen v. Clausen,
That case does not differ from this in any respect, except that the parties there were different and the land was not the same. The question in the two cases is the same.
The writ will be denied.
TOLMAN, C.J., MITCHELL, HOLCOMB, ASKREN, PARKER, and BRIDGES, JJ., concur. *363