State ex rel. Havercamp v. Superior Court

Citations

• 101 Wash. 260

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—Documentary Evidence—Records. Copies of records certified by a deputy county auditor are not inadmissible because not certified by the auditor; the act of his deputy being his act.</p> <p>Same—Documentary Evidence—Maps and Plats. A plat made by a deputy county engineer, based on his own field notes, is admissible in evidence, under Rem. Code, § 3975.</p> <p>Highways—Establishment — Authority op County Commissioners—Jurisdiction—Collateral Attack. County commissioners having general jurisdiction of the establishment of county roads by virtue of Rem. Code § 5623-1 et seq. and having acquired jurisdiction by petition and notice as required by Id., § 5633, to establish a certain road, their jurisdiction cannot be attacked collaterally by certiorari proceedings to review an order adjudicating a public use and necessity for appropriating lands for the road.</p> <p>Same—Establishment—Change of Route. Under Rem. Code, § 5627, empowering the county engineer to survey any other route for a county road than that petitioned for, the county commissioners may, after notice and hearing thereon, adopt a change in the route petitioned for; and reference to the former terminal points'is no longer jurisdictional, in view of Id., §§ 5623-2 and 5623-3, empowering the commissioners to establish any road without petition or adopt any route found most practicable.</p>