Maynard v. Jefferson County

Citations

• 54 Wash. 351
• 103 P. 418
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 999

Syllabus

<p>Counties — Actions—Conditions Precedent — Rejection oe Claim —Record oe Rejection — Limitation oe Actions. A claim against a county made by C. as attorney for S. P. M. and his wife H. M., for injuries sustained by the wife, filed on a certain date, is sufficiently identified and shown to have been rejected by a record of the county commissioners reciting the filing of a claim on said date by C. as attorney for H. M., referring to the place of the accident and amount of the claim, and stating “claim was rejected”; and an action thereon is barred within three months, under Bal. Code, § 359, although the claim was a community property claim, action upon which would have to be brought by the husband.</p>