State ex rel. Williams v. Brooks

Citations

• 58 Wash. 648
• 109 P. 211

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Population •—■ Determination — Evidence—Justices oe the Peace. It not being the duty of the Bureau of Statistics to enumerate the inhabitants of the state or its cities, its biennial report containing estimates of the population of the cities, with other general information, is not an official determination of the population of a city for the purpose of determining the number of justices» of the peace to be elected therein.</p> <p>Justices oe the Peace—Number Elected—Tenure oe Oeeice— Population oe City—Determination. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6531, providing for two justices of the peace in cities and towns, as qualified by § 6532, which provides that at the general election in 1898, and biennially thereafter, in cities of more than 5,000 inhabitants there shall be elected only one justice of the peace, two justices of the peace are to be elected in a city formerly having less than 5,000 inhabitants until it is officially determined that the city has more than that number; and such justices hold office until the next biennial election, although thereafter it was officially determined that at the time of their election the city had over 5,000 inhabitants.</p>