STATE EX REL. SAFEWAY v. OMDAHL

No. 31627.

37 Wn.2d 773 (1951)

225 P.2d 1065

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, on the Relation of Safeway Stores, Inc., Plaintiff, v. SVERRE H. OMDAHL, as Director of Agriculture, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

January 4, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.J. Lindberg and Scott, Langhorne & McGavick, for relator.

The Attorney General and George Downer, Assistant, for respondent.


GRADY, J.

Safeway Stores, Incorporated, has invoked the original jurisdiction of this court seeking a writ of mandate commanding the director of agriculture to issue it a permit to sell milk through its retail stores in Clark county, Washington.

At its 1949 session, the legislature enacted the Washington state uniform fluid milk act, being chapter 168, p. 429, of the Laws of 1949 (Rem. Supp. 1949, § 6266-30 et seq.). The act forbids the sale of...

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