State ex rel. Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Hughes

Citations

• 53 Wash. 651
• 102 P. 758
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1386

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Ordinances—Adoption—Amendment — Franchises. Under Bal. Code, § 1010, prohibiting the passage of an ordinance granting any franchise within five days after its introduction, an amendment of a franchise ordinance on the day of its passage by the substitution of the name of a railroad company, its successors and assigns, as grantee, in place of a mill company, its' successors and assigns, is not such a change in the subject-matter of the ordinance as to render it a new or different ordinance, the purpose of the franchise being to permit the hauling of cars from the mill to the railroad, and being for the joint benefit of both companies.</p>