Ransom v. City of South Bend

Citations

• 76 Wash. 396
• 136 P. 365
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1967

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Claims — Presentation — Necessity— Failure to Give Notice — Excuse. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 7998, providing that all claims for damages against any city or town of the second, third or fourth class, must be presented to the council and filed with the city clerk within thirty days after the time when such claim accrued, fixes a mandatory condition precedent to action which is not excused by physical or mental disability rendering performance impossible.</p> <p>Statutes — Validity—Construction. The policy, expediency and wisdom of an act are legislative and not judicial questions.</p>