State ex rel. Evans v. Superior Court

Citations

• 92 Wash. 375

Syllabus

<p>Justices of the Peace — Police Justice — Term of Office — Appointment — Revocation—Statutes. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 7520, providing that, within ten days after each general election, the mayor of cities of the first class shall appoint one of the justices of the peace so elected the police justice of such city, the term of the appointment is coextensive with the term for which he was elected as justice, and the mayor has no power to remove him or revoke the appointment, in the absence of statutory authority; especially in view of the provisions of the constitution, art. 5, § 3, providing that officers recognized by the constitution shall be subject to removal only for misconduct or malfeasance in the manner provided by law, and the provision that judicial officers may be impeached; there being no implied power of removal by the mayor resting in public policy.</p>