Carpenter v. Okanogan County

This controversy involves the validity of a sale of public lands by the county commissioners of Okanogan county to the plaintiff. The sale as made is void for two reasons: (1) The county commissioners never acquired jurisdiction to make the sale; and (2) the notice of sale did not conform to the statute. The facts and circumstances of the purported sale may be briefly summarized:

Prior to and on September 4,1929, Okanogan county owned approximately 27.18 acres of land which it used as a “poor farm,” and, on that day, the board of county commissioners by resolution undertook to “sell all that…