Wilton v. Pierce County

Citations

• 61 Wash. 386
• 112 P. 386
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1354

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Annexation of Territory — Elections —Validity—Polling Places. Under the general election laws which require the division of a county into election precincts and the designation of one voting place in each precinct, and which make residence within the precinct a necessary qualification of an elector,, a city election for the annexation of territory is void where no voting places were designated in several of the precincts; since the electors therein were thereby disfranchised.</p> <p>Injunction — Jurisdiction—Elections—Municipal Corporations-—Political Questions. An injunction against the canvassing of returns of an illegal city election for the annexation of territory involves property rights, and a court of equity will not refuse jurisdiction on the ground that only a political question is involved.</p> <p>Municipal Corporations — Annexation of Territory — Injunction. —Persons Entitled to Sue. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 4945, providing that no person can contest an election unless he is a qualified elector of the district etc., in which the office is to be exercised, has no application to an action in equity to enjoin the canvass of returns of an illegal city election for the annexation of territory.</p>