Strain v. Young

Citations

• 25 Wash. 578
• 66 P. 64
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 433

Syllabus

<p>ELECTIONS — INCREASE OF COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS BY VOTE — WHAT CONSTITUTES A THREE-FIFTHS VOTE — CONSTRUCTION OF CONSTITUTION.</p> <p>Under art. 8, § 6 of the constitution, forbidding any county to become indebted in excess of one and one-half per centum of the taxable property in such county, “without the assent of three-fifths of the voters therein voting at an election to be held for that purpose,” it is not necessary that a proposition for increasing the county’s indebtedness submitted at a general election should obtain three-fifths of the highest vote cast at such general election, but no more is required than that such special proposition, in order to carry, receive three-fifths of the votes cast by the voters who specially vote thereon.</p>