Estate of Brown, Inc. v. City of West Seattle

Citations

• 43 Wash. 26
• 85 P. 854
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 645

Syllabus

<p>Newspapers — Municipal Elections — Publication oe Notice. Under Bal. Code, § 708, requiring notice of an election for the annexation of territory to a municipal corporation to be published in a newspaper printed and published in such corporation, an election in the town of W. S. is valid when the notice was published in the W. S. Observer, which was generally circulated in the town and had been designated as the official paper of such town, although the mechanical work of printing the paper was done in the city of S., the town of W. S. having no newspaper actually printed within its limits.</p> <p>Municipal Corporations — Elections Held in Defiance of Order of Court — Validity—Burden of Proof. A town election held in defiance of an order of court, an account of* which order was published in a daily paper of general circulation in such town on the morning of the election, is void; the burden of proof being upon defendants to show that the election was a fair and correct expression of the voters, and it appearing that only about one-fifth of the registered electors had voted.</p>