State ex rel. Dunn v. Dorsey

Citations

• 19 Wash. 120
• 52 P. 1065
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 333

Syllabus

<p>CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — OBLIGATION OP CONTRACTS — PAYMENT OP WARRANTS ILLEGALLY ISSUED.</p> <p>The statute ('Laws 1897, p. 411, § 135; Bal. Code, § 2435), providing that illegal school warrants which had been validated by a vote of the school district should be paid, in case 'they had not been taken up by the issuance of funding bonds, only by a special tax levied for the purpose from year to year, and that the current revenues arising from the general school tax and fines should be applied exclusively to current expenses, is in no sense void as impairing the obligation of contracts.</p>