State ex rel. Port of Seattle v. Superior Court

Citations

• 93 Wash. 267

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Powers — Port Districts — Disbursement of Funds — Political Use — Statutes. Under the port district act (Rem. 1915. Code, § 8165-1 et seq.) authorizing the creation of port districts in the nature of a municipal corporation to engage in the business of building wharves, docks and harbor improvements and of operating and maintaining them, the Port of Seattle has no implied authority to spend money in a political campaign to defeat the passage of an act referred to the voters at a general election; since the district has only such power as is expressly conferred, or fairly incident to, and can be reasonably implied from, the powers granted, and such delegation of power cannot be presumed.</p>