Vincent v. City of South Bend

Citations

• 83 Wash. 314
• 145 P. 452
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 702

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Improvements—Assessments—Preliminary Estimate — Increase—Validity. The estimate of the cost of a local improvement, required by Rem. & Bal. Code, § 7974, to be approved by the council on the initiation of the proceedings, is for the sole purpose of determining whether the council will initiate the improvement, and the assessment is not invalidated by the fact that it greatly exceeds the estimate, where it did not exceed the actual bona fide or ultimate cost of the improvement, and can readily be accounted for by changed conditions; in view of Rem. & Bal. Code, § 7983, providing that, when the estimated cost is found too high or too low, the city shall, after due notice and hearing, make rebates or add the required additional amount to the assessment roll, apportioning the amount to the several pieces of property benefited as if it had been an original estimate.</p> <p>Same — Ordinances—Indeeiniteness. An ordinance authorizing a local improvement and assessment therefor cannot be held void for indefiniteness, where it follows the lines of the statutory requirements conferring such power upon municipalities and contains all the material provisions therein set forth.</p>