Renard v. City of Spokane

Citations

• 48 Wash. 345
• 93 P. 517
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 864

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Cobpobations — Stbeet Improvement — Special Assessments — Objections—Time fob Taking. Objections to an assessment for a local improvement, in that the plans provide for a rock cut forty feet wide at a cost of $5,300, while the petition was for a cut thirty feet wide at a cost not to exceed $3,600, and that wives of community property holders did not sign the petition, go to the regularity and correctness of the decision, within Laws 1901, p. 240, and thereunder no appeal from the assessment can he taken unless written objections to the assessment roll are filed with the city council; hence a protest prior to assessment is insufficient.</p> <p>Same — Manneb of Objecting. The statute requiring written objections to a special assessment is mandatory, oral objections at the hearing being insufficient.</p>