Townsend Gas & Electric Co. v. City of Port Townsend

Citations

• 19 Wash. 407
• 53 P. 551
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 398

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS — CHARTER POWERS AND RESTRICTIONS— STREET LIGHTING CONTRACTS.</p> <p>Where a city is given power by its charter, without restriction-, to provide for lighting t'he streets and furnishing the city with lights, a further provision of the charter fixing a method of levying an annual tax to pay for the same must be construed as an enlargement of the right of the city to provide funds therefor and not as a restriction upon the power conferred, which would confine the 'city’s lighting contracts to annual periods.</p>