Randall & Co. v. Yuba County

Citations

• 14 Cal. 219

Syllabus

<p>A Tax Collector Ras power to contract for publishing the delinquent list of tax payers, so as to bind the county for payment of the price. He Is the agent of the county in this respect, and, for any reasonable exercise of that agency, the county is responsible.</p> <p>nd where he did so contract with plaintiffs, who publish the list and sue the county for the price, the fact that the Tax Collector had assented to a contract previously made, or attempted to be made, by the Supervisors with another party, for publishing the list, is not enough to affect plaintiffs, if they had no notice of it; and evidence of such assent was properly ruled out.</p> <p>objection that an account presented to the Supervisors of a county was not “ authenticated,” as required by the statute, (Acts 1857, p. 107,) cannot be taken in the Supreme Court for the first time. ' '</p>