State ex rel. Reynolds v. Howell

Citations

• 70 Wash. 467
• 126 P. 954
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1069

Syllabus

<p>Elections — Eligibility or Candidates — Who May Question. A citizen and elector has the inherent right to maintain an action questioning the eligibility of a candidate for election to a public office.</p> <p>Judges — Eligibility to Other Office — Constitutional Provisions. Under Const., art. 4, § 5, providing that the judges of the supreme and superior courts shall be ineligible to any other office or public employment than a judicial office or employment during the term for which they shall be elected, a judge elected for the term of four years is ineligible as a candidate for governor during such p_eriod, although his term as judge would expire before the term of governor commences; “eligible” meaning competent to be chosen, and having reference to the time the choice is made, without reference to the time when the term begins (Crow and Fullerton, JJ., dissenting).</p>