Commercial Electric Light & Power Co. v. City of Tacoma

Citations

• 20 Wash. 288
• 55 P. 219
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 521

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS-TORTS OP OPPICERS—RATIFICATION.</p> <p>Where a city ratifies the acts of its mayor in tearing down the electric wires of a private company which were lawfully upon the city’s poles, the city is liable for the damages caused.</p> <p>The ratification by a city of the unauthorized acts of an officer need not be by ordinance, but, ratification being a question of fact for the jury, any acts which tend to prove it, are admissible in evidence.</p>