AUTOMOBILE CLUB ETC. v. City of Seattle

This action was initiated by the Automobile Club of Washington, Inc., one of the respondents herein, as a taxpayer, against appellants, the city of Seattle and its comptroller and treasurer, seeking (1) a declaratory judgment to the effect that the transfer of funds from the “city street fund” to the emergency fund for the purpose -of paying a certain death and bodily injury judgment rendered against the city, by reason of the negligence of its bridge tenders in the operation of the Montlake bridge, *163was an unconstitutional diversion of state gasoline excise tax funds, being in violation of…