Rands v. Clarke County

Citations

• 79 Wash. 152
• 139 P. 1090
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1166

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law — Loan of Credit — County Aid to Municipal Corporation. The issuance of county bonds for part of the cost of an interstate bridge, to be built jointly with a county in the adjoining state, is not a giving or loaning of money or credit in aid of “any individual, association, company or corporation” in violation of Const., art. 8, § 7; since the provision does not apply to a county or a corporation whose functions are wholly public.</p> <p>Same- — Loan of Credit- — Joint Construction of Interstate Bridge. The issuance of county bonds for part of the cost of an interstate bridge, to be built jointly with a county in the adjoining state, which was to supply the balance of the cost, is not a giving or loaning of money or credit, in violation of Const., art. 8, § 7; since the county retains an interest in the bridge and no more aids the foreign county than it receives aid therefrom.</p> <p>Counties — Bonds—Submission to Electors — Notice of Election —Sufficiency. Requirements for notice of a special county bond election are directory only, where the statute does not provide that the election shall be void if not strictly followed; and the publication of notice of election for only 25 or 26 days, where the act requires publication for four weeks next preceding the date of election, does not invalidate the election, where the subject was widely discussed, numerous public meetings were held and the matter given great notoriety, and the voters fully informed, and a heavy vote cast, and the result could not have been different if legal notice had been given.</p> <p>Same — Bonds — Submission to Electors — Ballots. A special county bond' election is not invalidated by printing on the ballot explanatory matter in addition to the matter required by statute.</p> <p>Same — Bonds—Rate of Interest. A statute authorizing the issuance of county bonds bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable semiannually, is sufficiently complied with