King County v. Martin

(dissenting in part)—I am in accord with the majority except as to that part of the opinion which reads as follows:

“It is apparent that the county commissioners could not vote emergency warrants if there were sufficient funds available to care for its needs. This rule applies even though some of those funds were in the possession or under the control of a state agency. Our holding, in the case of Palmquist v. Taylor, 177 Wash. 306, 31 P. (2d) 894, to the effect that county commissioners could not, under the doctrine of necessity, levy a tax to cover an expected relief emergency, compels this…