State ex rel. Stirrat v. Ross

Citations

• 54 Wash. 481
• 103 P. 824
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1021

Syllabus

<p>Public Lands — Sale—Contract—Authority of Commissioner. Under Bal. Code, § 2198, giving the commissioner of public lands power to review and reconsider his official acts relating to public lands until a lease or contract has been executed and signed, the commissioner acts within his discretion in refusing to sign a contract for the sale of the whole of lots, where, pending the advertised sale, the legislature passed an act, which took effect after the sale, granting a city a right of way through the lots for a street.</p>