Case Name: The State of Washington, on the Relation of State Highway Committee, Plaintiff, v. Roland H. Hartley et al., Respondents
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1927-07-19
Citations: 144 Wash. 332
Docket Number: No. 20670
Parties: The State of Washington, on the Relation of State Highway Committee, Plaintiff, v. Roland H. Hartley et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 144
Pages: 332–333

Head Matter:
[No. 20670.
Department Two.
July 19, 1927.]
The State of Washington, on the Relation of State Highway Committee, Plaintiff, v. Roland H. Hartley et al., Respondents.
The Attorney General and L. B. Donley, for relator.
Coleman & Fogarty and E. H. Guie, for respondents.
Reported in 258 Pac. 6.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:.
In this action it is sought to have the respondents return to the state highway committee certain unopened bids for highway work and certain records of the committee.
£1] It appears from the record that the case, in so far as it involves the unopened bids, is a moot one, for these bids were some of those submitted in response to advertisement for the letting of contracts for highway work, and the majority of the bids having been returned to those who presented them, the possession by the committee of the remaining unopened bids is a matter of no moment for the reason that the work must of necessity be readvertised and new bids called for before the contracts can be let.
£2] On the other branch of the ease, involving the records of the state highway committee, the respondent Humes, who it is alleged is in possession of these records, should turn such records over to the possession of the committee, they being the property of, and rightfully in the possession of, the committee.
Therefore the writ is denied as to the respondent Hartley and is granted as to the respondent Humes, who is directed to deliver to the state highway committee all books and records belonging to that committee.