Lister v. City of Tacoma

Citations

• 44 Wash. 222
• 87 P. 126
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 816

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Local Improvements • — Validity oe Bonds — Mistake as to Period. Bonds for a local improvement, payable in cash or in ten annual installments, are not affected by a mistake in the original ordinance limiting the time for payment to five annual installments, where, upon discovery of the mistake, the city council passed another ordinance correcting the mistake, before levy of the assessment, the law not providing the time when the council should fix such time, and all the bidders and city officials having acted in the first instance under the impression that the annual installments were provided for; as no injury could have resulted to property holders under such circumstances.</p>