State ex rel. Bellingham School District No. 301 v. Clausen

Citations

• 109 Wash. 37
• 186 P. 319
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 971

Syllabus

<p>Schools and School Districts (34)—Bonds—Power to Issue— Conditions—Statutes. After the taking effect on June 12 of Laws of 1919, p. 216, § 12, amending Rem. Code, § 4607, and providing that school district bonds for erecting permanent buildings shall be made payable in semi-annual installments, the school district has no power to issue or sell bonds payable in ten years, in conformity to the former law, notwithstanding the issue was authorized by an election and adjudged by a court to be valid before the amendment of 1919 took effect.</p> <p>Constitutional Law (72)—Obligation op Contracts—Contracts op State and School Districts. Laws of 1919, p. 216, § 12, amending Rem. Code, § 4607, and changing the requirements as to school district bonds, did not impair the obligation of any contract as to contemplated bonds that had been previously authorized under the former law, where such bonds had not been issued or the state’s bid therefor accepted prior to June 12, 1919, when the amendment took effect.</p> <p>Judgment (227, 229)—Conclusiveness — Bar — Matters Not in Issue or Which Could Not Have Been Adjudicated. A judgment on the merits to the effect that a school district was legally authorized by vote of the electors to issue bonds conditioned in compliance with the law then in effect, entered prior to the taking effect of Laws of 1919, p. 216, § 12, amending Rem. Code, § 4607, is not an adjudication as to the right of the school district to issue and sell said bonds after the taking effect of the amendatory act which changed the requirements as to the conditions of the bond.</p>