Baum v. Sweeny

Citations

• 5 Wash. 712
• 32 P. 778
• 1893 Wash. LEXIS 52

Syllabus

<p>COUNTY COMMISSIONERS —LIMITATION OF APPEAL—COUNTY PRINTING— NOTICE FOR BIDS — AWARDING CONTRACT.</p> <p>Sec. 298, Gen. Stafc., requiring appeals from an order made by a board of county commissioners to be taken within twenty days thereafter, is impliedly repealed by §119, Code Proc., which provides that an appeal may be taken from such orders within three months, as §119 is the later expression of the legislative will.</p> <p>The provision of law requiring notice for bids for county printing to be published for a certain time prior to the May session of the board of county commissioners, is merely directory, and where the rights of the public have been fully protected, and the bids were received as fully and completely as if the proper notice had been given, it is the duty of the board to award the contract to the best and lowest responsible bidder, who has been the publisher of a newspaper for at least six months preceding such May session, and they may be compelled so to do by order of the superior court.</p>