People ex rel. Raun & Plant v. Bd. of Supervisors of El Dorado Cty.

Citations

• 11 Cal. 170

Syllabus

<p>The Board of Supervisors of a county possesses no power to allow the County Auditor compensation for the issuance and cancellation of warrants drawn on the County Treasurer.</p> <p>Such a claim is not authorized by law, and the power of the Board to allow accounts against the county is confined to those “legally chargeable.”</p> <p>County warrants acquire no greater validity in the hands of third parties than they originally possessed in the hands of the first holder, no matter for what consideration they may have been transferred, or in what faith they may have been taken. If illegal when issued, they are illegal for all time.</p> <p>The protection which attends the purchaser of negotiable paper before maturity, without notice of the illegality of its consideration, does not extend to like purchasers of county warrants.</p>