Richards v. Klickitat County

Citations

• 13 Wash. 509
• 43 P. 647
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 78

Syllabus

<p>COUNTIES — VALIDATION OF INDEBTEDNESS — LEGALITY OF ELECTION NOTICE—ISSUANCE OF FUNDING BONDS — WARRANTS FOR REBATE OF TAXES.</p> <p>Under the act of 1895 (Laws, p. 465), providing for the funding of the outstanding indebtedness of counties by the issuance of bonds, counties are authorized to fund indebtedness legally incurred by them prior to the adoption of the state constitution.</p> <p>The failure of the county commissioners to provide, in a resolution calling an election for the validation of illegal indebtedness, for notice of the election and that it should be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, will not render such validation election void, when it appears that notice was actually and properly given in the newspaper of largest circulation in the county.</p> <p>The fact that the several classes of indebtedness as set forth in the resolution and notice calling an election for validation thereof did not agree with the amounts actually outstanding in the different classes, would not render the validation inoperative when the submission was in separate classes and the voter was notified of exactly the warrants which he was called upon to validate.</p> <p>Warrants issued in rebate of taxes illegally levied, in lieu of the money wrongfully collected, need not be validated, although issued after a county had passed its limit of indebtedness.</p> <p>Mistake in stating the total amount of the bonds required in. a notice for bids will not invalidate the issuance of bonds, when the notice correctly stated the series, the amount of each series, and the time that each series was to run, the law requiring that bids should be made by the series separately.</p>