13 Wash. 574 | Wash. | 1896
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This is an action upon a bond given by the defendants, under the provisions of the act of January 31, 1888 (Gen. Stat., §2415), for the protection of those furnishing labor and materials to tbe defendant Scott in the erection of a school house for school district No. 3 in Kittitas county. Said bond was before tbe court in Ihrig v. Scott, 5 Wash. 584 (32 Pac. 466), and the substance of it is set forth in the opinion in that case. The plaintiff sues to recover for labor and materials furnished said contractor. A number of defenses were interposed, the principal one being that the bond was void in consequence of a want of authority on the part of the officers of the school district to enter into the contract for the erection of the school house. At the conclusion of the plaintiffs case a motion for a non-suit by the defendants was overruled and the court directed the jury to bring in a verdict for the plaintiff, and this appeal is prosecuted from the judgment rendered thereon.
Much of the argument was directed to the proceedings upon the part of the district relating to the letting of the contract and the several elections called to
It is further contended that the court erred in not allowing the defendants to file an answer to the third cause of action which it is claimed they had inadvertently neglected to deny. It is apparent, however, that the defense to this would have been the same as that to the others, which were denied, and would not have availed the defendants anything, and, if otherwise, we
It is further contended that the court erred in admitting the bond in evidence without proof of its execution, but the record fails to show that it was objected to on that ground when offered.
Affirmed.
Hoyt, C. J., and Anders and Gordon, JJ., concur.