State Ex Rel. Washington Navigation Co. v. Pierce County

Steinert, J. (dissenting)

It is to be remembered that this is a rehearing of the case bearing the above title and number and reported in 184 Wash. 414, 51 P. (2d) 407, wherein it was held (adopting the third finding of the trial court and by further reasoning) (1) that, under the public service commission act as it stood in 1927, the board of county commissioners of Pierce county had exclusive jurisdiction over the operations of relator’s ferries; and (2) that the contracts out of which this litigation arose were void because in contravention of Art. VIH, § 7, of the state constitution. That…