State ex rel. Milliken v. Board of Commissioners

Citations

• 49 Wash. 70
• 94 P. 897
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 528

Syllabus

<p>Elections — Majority — Statutes —Construction — Counties — Township Organization. Const, art. 2, § 4, providing for the establishment of township organization “whenever a majority of the qualified electors of such county voting at a general election shall so determine” does not authorize township organization upon a majority of those voting upon the question, although the legislature so construed the clause in Laws 1895, p. 473, hut only upon a majority of the total votes cast at the election.</p>