Shea v. Skagit County

Citations

• 68 Wash. 233
• 122 P. 1061
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1273

Syllabus

<p>Counties — Bonds — Purposes- — Repair or County Roads — Statutes — Construction. Under the rule that the authority to issue bonds will not be inferred, and that general statutory provisions yield to subsequent special ones, the specific provisions of Rem. & Bal. Code, § 5094, authorizing a county to issue bonds for the purpose of making new roads or improving established roads, excludes the idea that it may issue bonds for the general repair of roads; and the law on the particular subject not authorizing the same, such bonds could not he issued under the general law, Rem. & Bal. Code, chapter 12, § 5086 et seq., previously passed at the same session of the legislature, authorizing a county to issue bonds for strictly county purposes.</p>