State ex rel. Heaton v. Beman

Citations

• 15 Wash. 24
• 45 P. 652
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 129

Syllabus

<p>COUNTY COMMISSIONERS — COMPENSATION—RIGHT TO MILEAGE — CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTE.</p> <p>County commissioners are not entitled to charge mileage under Code 1881, § 2670, permitting mileage, since Laws 1889-90, p. 305, §2, which provides that they ‘ ‘ shall receive five dollars per day for each day employed in performance of their duties,” expressly declares that its purpose is to fix the salaries of county officers, and that all acts in conflict with its provisions are repealed.</p> <p>When legislative construction of an act is made by a subsequent legislature and in apparent ignorance of what the law in force really is, such construction can have no force upon the courts, when called upon to construe the act.</p>