City of Pullman v. Hungate

Citations

• 8 Wash. 519
• 36 P. 483
• 1894 Wash. LEXIS 101

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS — VALIDATION OP VOID INCORPORA-TIONS.</p> <p>The act of March 9,1893 (Laws, p. 183), providing for the legalization of those cities and towns which had attempted to incorporate or re-incorporate under the act of March 27,1890, where such bodies had, at the date of the passage of the act, an organized government, which had been maintained since the date of such attempted incorporation, is constitutional and sufficient to validate a defacto town which had attempted to incorporate under the void act of February 2, 1888, and again to re-incorporate under the unconstitutional provisions of §4 of the act of March 27,1890. (Stiles and Anders, JJ., dissent.)</p>