Smith v. Lamping

Citations

• 27 Wash. 624
• 68 P. 195
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 432

Syllabus

<p>APPEAL-REVIEW OE PLEADINGS SUBSEQUENTLY FILED.</p> <p>Where an appeal was taken from an order overruling a demurrer to a complaint, and subsequent to the overruling of the demurrer an amended complaint was filed by plaintiff, the supreme court will not review the allegations of such amended com&laint, although brought up by supplemental record.</p> <p>COUNTIES-INDEX OF RECORDS-POWER OF COMMISSIONERS TO AUTHORIZE NEW SYSTEM.</p> <p>The legislature having made provision by Bal. Code, § 412, prescribing the kind of index of conveyances and mortgages to be kept by the county auditor, and expressly making it his duty to follow the method therein prescribed, negatives the idea that the county commissioners have authority to direct the preparation of a different method by other parties at public expense.</p> <p>SAME- — -ULTRA VIRES.</p> <p>Bal. Code, §§ 265, 342, which authorize counties to do all necessary acts in relation to - all the property of the county and empower the county commissioners to have the care of the county property and the management of the county funds and business do not contemplate that they shall go beyond their statutory authority and interfere with the conduct of county business which has been expressly defined by the legislature.</p>