Business Leaders Remonstrate Against Court Expansion
King County business firms petition the state legislature to block the creation of an additional Superior Court judge, citing unnecessary tax burdens.
The following petition against the creation of an additional judge of the superior court in King county has been circulated by County Auditor Twichell, who has obtained the signatures of fifty-eight business firms. The petition states that it would place upon the taxpayers of this county the necessity of paying the expenses of another court, judges salary and all the incidental expenses connected with a court, and firmly believes that the court as at present constituted is fully able and competent to properly dispose of and care for all business that will come before it.
“Any such addition as proposed would be considered by a vast majority of the citizens of King county as an unjust and unnecessary burden.”
The tension between fiscal conservatism and the growing demand for judicial resources is as relevant to King County’s modern court backlog as it was during this frontier era.
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