Olympian-Tribune Publishing Co. v. Byrne

Citations

• 28 Wash. 79
• 68 P. 335
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 458

Syllabus

<p>COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-RECORDS-CORRECTION.</p> <p>A board of county commissioners has powe'r to amend its records, even after adjournment, so as to make them show the true orders made by the board.</p> <p>SAME-CONTRACTS-BID EOR PUBLIC PRINTING-CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE.</p> <p>The acceptance by a board of county commissioners of a bid for printing, on certain conditions, which the bidder refused to agree to would not constitute a contract which the bidder could enforce.</p> <p>SAME-INTERVENING RIGHTS.</p> <p>The fact that the entry of an order on the records of the county commissioners accepting a bid for printing unconditionally was corrected about one month subsequently, by making the records show that a condition had been ordered attached to the acceptance, would not give the bidder any intervening rights between the original entry and date of correction, where nothing had been done under the proposed contract, which in fact could not have been operative until some three weeks subsequent to the date of the correction, and there is nothing to show that the bidder relied upon the unconditional acceptance shown by the. record to his disadvantage.</p> <p>SAME-DELINQUENT TAX LIST-PUBLICATION IN OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER —■ POWERS OF COUNTY TREASURER.</p> <p>Laws 1901, p. 385, § 3, which provides that the county treasurer shall make publication of summons in delinquent tax cases “in the official newspaper of the county,” - provided the charge therefor does not exceed ten cents for each description, and that, if such publication cannot be made in said newápaper at said price, the county treasurer may cause such publication to be made in any other newspaper of general circulation published in the county, at a cost not to exceed said price, does not contemplate that the county treasurer shall contract for the publication of the delinquent tax list, except upon the failure to publish such list by the official newspaper of the county selected by the commissioners, and it is within t