Ruffin v. Sewell

This action was instituted to restrain the defendants, as commissioners of Diking District No. 22, of Skagit county, from proceeding to issue and sell bonds of the district, amounting to $1,300,000, for the purpose of providing funds for the carrying out of its plans for the-diking and drainage of the district.

In his complaint, the plaintiff makes four principal attacks upon the right of the commissioners to proceed: (a) That the petition for the organization of the district was not signed by a majority of the property owners owning lands within the proposed district; (b) that-notice of the…