Packwood v. County of Kittitas

Citations

• 15 Wash. 88
• 33 L.R.A. 673
• 45 P. 640
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 141

Syllabus

<p>COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS — VALIDATING ELECTION — NOTICE — BONDS — PAYMENT IN GOLD.</p> <p>A notice of election for the purpose of validating county warrants, given under the provisions of Laws 1893, p. 181, need not specify the polling places in the county where the election is to be held, but is sufficient when it gives a general notice as to when the election would be held throughout the county, since the general election law requiring notices to be posted in the several precincts affords the voters opportunity to ascertain where in each precinct the election would be held.</p> <p>When legislative authority is given to a county to issue funding bonds, without any restriction as to the kind of money in which they shall be payable, the county has discretion to issue such bonds as will best accomplish the general object to secure which their issue was authorized.</p> <p>When authority is conferred upon a county to issue bonds, the county is authorized to make them payable in gold, when there is no legislative restriction thereon, especially in view of the circumstance that it had been customary in this state and territory, prior to the grant of legislative authority, to make such bonds payable in gold, as it must be presumed it was the intention of the legislature that the former custom should be followed.</p>