Board of Directors v. Beecher

Citations

• 116 Wash. 440
• 200 P. 88
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 966

Syllabus

<p>Waters (89)—Irrigation Districts—Proceedings to Establish— Publication of Notices—Sufficiency. The notices for the hearing of a petition and for an election for the organization of an irrigation district may properly be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the vicinity of the proposed district instead of in the designated official newspaper of the county, in view of Rem. Code, § 6417, providing that it may be made in any newspaper of general circulation in the county, selected by the person or body charged with making the publication, which shall be the official newspaper for such purpose.</p> <p>Same (89)—Notice—Description of Boundaries. A notice of election for the creation of an irrigation district sufficiently describes courses and distances in establishing the district boundaries by a designation of one point as “the most northerly point of lot 3, Peshastin Orchard,” and another point as “the northwest corner of lot 6, Springdale Orchards,” where the plats of such tracts were of record in the county auditor’s office, and the boundary of the district was described in the notice as commencing at a specified point with reference to a section corner of a specified township and range in the county.</p> <p>Same (89)—Petition—Order Establishing District—Piling Order. Under Rem. Code, § 6490, as amended by Laws 1917, ch. 162, p. 723, a petition for the confirmation by the superior court of proceedings organizing an irrigation district is only required to “state generally that the irrigation district was duly organized,” and need not recite that a certified copy of the order of the county commissioners finally establishing the district was filed with the county clerk pursuant to Id., § 6418', as amended by Laws 1917, ch. 162.</p> <p>Same (91)—Bonds—Submission to Voters. Where the only questions submitted to the voters of an irrigation district under a notice calling an election to authorize a bond issue were the obtaining of additional water for irriga