7.56.040 - Information for usurping office -- Requisites -- Damages. - Washington Statutes

Information for usurping office — Requisites — Damages.

Whenever an information shall be filed against a person for usurping an office, by the prosecuting attorney, he shall also set forth therein the name of the person rightfully entitled to the office, with an averment of his right thereto; and when filed by any other person he shall show his interest in the matter, and he may claim the damages he has sustained.

[Code 1881 § 705; 1877 p 143 § 709; 1854 p 216 § 471; RRS § 1037.]