State ex rel. Baker v. Snodgrass
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from Superior Court, Clarice County. Action by D. B. Baker to enjoin the defendants and ap-pellees, who were the auditor, treasurer and county commissioners,respectively, of Clarke county,State of Washington, from issuing county bonds.
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Appeal from Superior Court, Clarice County. Action by D. B. Baker to enjoin the defendants and ap-pellees, who were the auditor, treasurer and county commissioners,respectively, of Clarke county,State of Washington, from issuing county bonds. In pursuance of an election duly held, there being more than three-fifths of the votes cast in favor of the issuance of forty thousand dollars in county bonds, the appellees were about to negotiate said bonds to raise money for the building of a court house and jail in said county, when the appellant procured a restraining order to prevent the sale of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Stiles, J.
The matter at issue in this case was the same as that in Metcalfe v. Seattle, ante, p. 297, there being but onequestion to be passed upon, however, viz.: Thatwhether the majority required to authorize the officials of a county to issue bonds to build a court-house must be three-fifths of all the voters of the county, or three-fifths of those voting. The action of the court below was the same as that of the superior court of King county, and the judgment here must be the same as in Metcalfe v. Seattle, for the reasons fully given in that case.
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