City of Olympia v. Nickert

Citations

• 118 Wash. 407
• 203 P. 946
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 660

Syllabus

<p>Evidence (10) — Judicial Notice — Obdinances. A city police court may take judicial notice of an ordinance whose violation is charged against defendant without the complaint setting out the ordinance other than by its number.</p> <p>Same (1) — Judicial Notice — By Appellate Coubt. On appeal from a police court on a prosecution for the violation of a city ordinance of which judicial notice is taken by the police court, such ordinance is equally within the judicial knowledge of the superior court to which the appeal is taken.</p> <p>Municipal Cobpobations (53) — Obdinances — Pleading. Rem. Code, § 291, respecting the manner of pleading a city ordinance applies only in cases originally commenced in courts other than those of the municipality whose ordinance is involved.</p>