Griggs v. Port of Tacoma

On September 10, 1928, the port commission of the port of Tacoma adopted a resolution, numbered 233, appropriating thirty-five thousand dollars of the general fund of the port of Tacoma, or so much thereof as might be necessary, to be used to dredge and improve Hylebos creek waterway by straightening, widening and deepening it.

Respondent, a resident and taxpayer in the port district of the port of Tacoma, conceiving himself to be injured by the proceeding, began suit against the port commission and the port district to restrain the expenditure of any of this money, setting forth the…