Rickey v. Williams

Citations

• 8 Wash. 479
• 36 P. 480
• 1894 Wash. LEXIS 95

Syllabus

<p>REMOVAL OE COUNTY SEAT — JURISDICTION OP COUNTY COMMISSIONERS —INJUNCTION.</p> <p>The fact that the commissioners of a county have made an order, based upon a proper petition therefor, for the submission to the people of the question of removing the county seat to the town named in such petition, will not authorize them, under Gen. Stat., §§ 2458-61, to submit at the same election a proposition for its removal to a certain other town, when the petition for removal to the latter place contains the names of less than one-third of the number of people voting at the last preceding general election.</p> <p>Injunction will lie at the suit of a county officer to enjoin the removal of the county seat, when the board of county commissioners had never obtained jurisdiction by proper petition to order the submission of the question to popular vote. (Dunbab, C. J., dissents).</p>