Percival v. Cowychee & Wide Hollow Irrigation District

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoyt, C. J.

The only authority for the levy of the tax, the collection of which was in controversy in this action, was the provision of the act of March 22, 1895, (Laws 1895, p. 451, §27), which provided that:

“Whenever the board of directors of any district heretofore formed under this act shall have attempted to incur any indebtedness prior to this amendment going into effect, and when the only ground of the invalidity of such indebtedness is that the board of directors was not authorized to incur such indebtedness so contracted by said board, such…