1 Wash. 287 | Wash. | 1890
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hoyt, J. — This cause comes to this court upon the certificate of the judge of the superior.court, that it is desirable to have the opinion of this court upon the questions presented, and upon the order of said superior court that the proceedings be brought here for the determination of four questions, as follows:
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The first two of these questions are clearly pertinent to the controversy between the parties, and their rights cannot be determined without a finding which must substantially answer said questions. We, therefore, think them properly before us for decision. An answer to the other
If the proviso in § 1 of the act in question had been omitted from said section, and § 6 from said act, it would be clear that the territory included within that part of a county in which a void attempt at incorporation had been made was as fully covered by the act as any other. All attempts to incorporate under the act of February 2, 1888, were absolutely void, and such attempts (unless legalized by legislation) did not, and could not, change the status of the inhabitants included in the territory so attempted to be incorporated, and §§ 1, 2 and 8 of the act in question apply to all such territory the same as to any other.
It follows that the only inquiry necessary is as to the effect upon the question before us of said proviso to g 1, and said § 6. It has been suggested upon the argument that said portions of the act were absolutely void. That it was not competent for the legislature to thus indirectly vivify and give force to acts of attempted incorporation, but as we see our way clear to decide this cause without determining as to the soundness of such argument, for the reasons hereinbefore stated, we shall decline so to do.
We are of the opinion that even if such portions of said act are valid, they are not exclusive. That the most that can be claimed thereunder is, that by virtue thereof it was
Let it be certified to the court below that this court answers the first two questions submitted in the affirmative, and that it declines to answer the others. And that the judgment of the superior court in this cause is affirmed, and the same remanded to said court for further proceedings thereon.