Legal Opinion
Hagen v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Decided May 14, 1959No. 34864PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
This is an action for property damage allegedly caused by the city of Seattle in the improvement of 23rd avenue southwest. The trial court directed a verdict against the city and submitted the issue of damages to the jury on special interrogatories. From the judgment entered upon the verdict and the answers to the interrogatories the city appeals.
The plat, covering the area with which we are here concerned, was recorded in 1888; and, by it, what is now 23rd avenue southwest was dedicated as a street sixty feet in width. It runs north and south, and the plaintiff’s property has a fifty-foot…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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