Booth v. Snohomish County
Citations
- 75 Wash. 122
- 134 P. 686
- 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1683
Syllabus
<p>Counties — Contracts — Limit ox Indebtedness — County Road Contracts — Statutes—Construction. The county road law of 1913, Laws 1913, p. 476, providing for road funds and levies and limiting the expenditures in any year to eighty per cent of the fund against which the liability is incurred, unless there he cash in the fund, is not restricted to levies made by authority of the act, but limits all expenditures after the act took effect and applies to expenditures of monies raised by former levies, notwithstanding that prior indebtedness is provided for by separate levies and funds; in view of the repeal of all prior road laws, and the fact that the road funds provided for are practically the same as in the acts repealed; hence a road contract entered into after the act took effect, creating liability in excess of eighty per cent of the fund, without cash therein, is void.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Obligation oe Contracts. An act is not unconstitutional as impairing the obligation of a contract where the contract was not entered into until after the act took effect, nor where there is nothing to indicate that the act applies to existing contracts.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- “[Penetration of the buttocks, but not the anus, does not meet the ordinary meaning of ‘sexual intercourse.’ ”
- “Where there are findings of fact, as in a bench trial, unchallenged findings of fact are verities on appeal.”
- “[P]enetration of the buttocks, but not the anus, does not meet the ordinary meaning of ‘sexual intercourse.’”
- “Where there are findings of fact, as in a bench trial, unchallenged findings of fact are verities on appeal.”
- “Where written findings and conclusions have an unambiguous meaning, they are not susceptible to being given a different meaning on appeal through resort to an examination of the lower court’s oral ruling.”
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Judges: Parker
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