State v. Williams

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding compensation and damages to landowners, Lucia Rose and Frank Rose, her husband, in condemnation proceedings. The proceedings were instituted by the state, at the instance of the Washington Toll Bridge Authority, to acquire the right of way for a highway tunnel, in the city of Seattle, in connection with the construction of the Lake Washington concrete pontoon toll bridge, and to provide a suitable westerly approach for that structure.

The condemnation petition involved a considerable number of different tracts, but settlements out of court before…