Phillips v. City of Olympia

Citations

• 21 Wash. 153
• 57 P. 347
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 254

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS-STREET IMPROVEMENTS-RE-ASSESSMENTESTOPPEL.</p> <p>Where a municipal corporation has enacted an ordinance reciting the illegality and invalidity of assessments for certain street improvements, as originally made, and providing a reassessment, in conformity with the statute authorizing such proceedings whenever an original assessment has been declared invalid by the courts, the city cannot assert the validity of the original assessments, nor successfully resist mandamus proceedings to compel a re-assessment for such improvements.</p>