State ex rel. Hill v. Port of Seattle

Citations

• 104 Wash. 634
• 177 P. 671
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 522

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (22, 23.) — Governmental Powers — Authority to Manufacture Ice. Laws of 1917, p. 498, § 1, empowering port districts to maintain and operate “warehouses, storehouses, elevators, grain-bins, cold storage plants, terminal icing plants . . .” authorizes the manufacture and sale of ice only as connected with the general scheme of its public business as a warehouseman for preserving shipments cared for or shipped at its docks and terminals; and does not grant power to build a plant and engage in manufacture largely in excess of its. needs and to sell to others engaged in retailing ice.</p> <p>Same (22). Such power cannot be sustained on the theory that it may build in reasonable anticipation of future needs, where it built deliberately in excess of any demand that might be made within any reasonable future time, especially in view of the fact that ice plants can be built in units and added to as necessary.</p> <p>Same (22). Ice is not a by-product of a cold storage plant, notwithstanding the ice manufacturing machinery may be run by the same power as the refrigerating plant.</p> <p>Tolman, J., dissents.</p>