Pybus v. Smith

Citations

• 80 Wash. 65
• 141 P. 203
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1262

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Officers — Recall—Grounds—“Malfeasance”—Trading Votes in Council. It is “malfeasance” in office, within the meaning of 3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 4940-1 et seq., authorizing the recall of city officers, for councilmen to mate an agreement for the trading of votes whereby each yielded his personal judgment in voting on certain appointments and matters in consideration of the promise of votes on other matters of special interest to him.</p>