Blevins v. Board of Douglas County Comm'rs

How courts have described this case

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• contemplating the lack of binding power that would result from an officer acting outside of their office’s specific statutory authority
• statute cannot be used to challenge county authority to spend proceeds from bonds and notes previously declared lawful and valid
• a governmental agency or municipal corporation “cannot be made liable either on the theory of estoppel or implied contract, where it had no capacity to make the contract”
• “If a municipal corporation enters into a contract it has no power to make, it is ultra vires and unenforceable and no further inquiry into the contract’s validity is necessary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).