The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-06

| create confusion when the courts are called
| upon to determine who is deemed the "Suc-
eessor IN Interest OF the Judgment debtor.
81 Code Procedure, section 10, prohibits
divorced persons from marrying with a third
party within the period allowed for an appeal.
mere is no penalty in the law for violation OF
THIS prohibition, and ii is being frequently vio-
ia'eo. such marriage should either re a con-
Tempt oil the court granting the divorce, or an
olleGse against the criminal laws.
So The modern practice of tie law has made
the stenograpner almost a prime necessity in
every important case. In this slate stenograpn-
e!s are, however, unrecognizai as court officers,
sno their reports have no verify for any purpose
ihey should be sasAEisi officers. and their notes.
ooth short and long hand. should be the prop
erty OF the counties, whence, for reasonable
lee. lt1gants could obtain copies
81 II has been found that cities of the first
class have 10 machinery provided by which
taey can acquire real estate under the power of
eminent domain
% Cities OF the first class are without means
OF sscertaining the amount OF damages to be
pald 20 owners OF real estate abutti1g upon
streets and alleys, when the streets and alters
are to be improved. and the Improvement will
damage the abutting property within the pur-
view OF section 10, article / of .ha constitution
90. connection with the University of Wash
ing'on. chapter ~, title TO- General Statutes, the
lack OF specific appropriation of money, and
the indehniteness OF the language of the ac,
now constituting chapter II, led TO the substan-
tiai prevention OF al work in connection with
the erection OF the university building
%. In connection with the appointment OF
inc commission to locate the agricultural col
iege provided for IN General Statutes section
9oo there arose serious question which per-
tains not only 10 the appointment of the CON-
mlssioners therein provided for, but We believe.
70 the appointment of all officers by the gov
ernor with the advice and consent OF the sem
ate, VIZ. in such cases when the senate is not in
session, and any such offices are filed, is there
vacancy which may be filed by the gov
ernor without the advice and consent Of the
senate? In all such cases there should BIS some
SPECIFIC provision, either authorizing the gov
ernor to act independently, or providing that
.he once should remain vacant until the senate
Is again in session
IS. While no case on the subject has been
before US, cases have come before the superior
courts or the state wherein the question was
raised whether or not credits" are TO be- sub
Jeeted TO taxation under General Statute title IL
Whatever may have been the construction of
the revenue law in the past in this particular.
IL Is not complete while such questions remain
lot judicial construction The revenue OF the
state and the counties is made uncertain. and
much dissatisfaction Is aroused among the
people.
SO. The provisions with regard TO the assess
ment aud taxation OF the property of banks, and
OF bank stock, are indefinite and liable TO such
mislnterpTetation as VIII lead to double and
perhaps invalid, asse- sments in many cases
40. The act OF March IS, 1890 provided for the
establishment of a reform school. The act of
March Z, 1871, made some provision in regard to
the commitment OF persons to and their dis
charge from the school, but the latter act is very
imperfect in many particulars, ana especially
In one which We have had occasion to pass
upon, viz. the case where person convicted of
felony in a superior court has been by the
court committed 70 the reform school, and after
being there under the commitment fo- a short
time proves to be entirely incorrigble. In
such case the statute is entirely silent
as to what shall be done with
the incorrigible. The efficiency and value
OF the school are liable to be entirely ruined by
the continued presence OF such persons, and at
the same time the officers of the school are not
provided with any clear course of action, and
IL. as has been done in one case, they return the
offender to the superior court from whence he
came that court in turn has not laid down for
it any precise direction for the disposition of
the person returned.
Al. difficulty has been encountered in con-
nection with General Statute, section 2,I46-7,
concerning improvements upon school lands
Two questions have been raised: % AS to
whether the purchaser at a commissioners sale
Is entitled 10 the possession of the land until he
has actually paid the owner for the improve
ments the amount OF their appraised value;
CD what the course shall be in case the person to
whom the improvements were appraised should
turn out not 10 be the owner OF them, the pur-
chaser being willing to pay the appraised value
of the improvements. but being uncertain as to
whom the money should be paid
A. General Statutes, title II, provides for the
sale OF county property. There is no similar act
covering the sale OF property belonging TO the
state 1t occurs TO us that certain of the execu-
tive officers of the state might vel constitute a
board TO dispose OF personal property belonging
to the state which has become of no further use
to 1t. We are moved to make this suggestion by
the fact that there is now in the possession of
this court certain personal property of some
value which is no longer OF any use to the
court, or its clerk, AID which might well be dis.
posed OF and the proceeds turned into the treas
ury.
a. The last clause of General Statutes !, 40,
provides for escheats, but there are no further
provisions in the statutes on the subject There
are likely to be considerable properties left
without legal claimants, aud there should be
some definite law on the subject OF the proceed
urs in such cases.