Dreger v. Sullivan

Relators Sullivan seek to review by certiorari an “Order of Necessity” for a “private way of necessity” over certain lands of the relators.

The Dregers brought this action under authority given by RCW 8.24.020 [cf. Rem. Rev. Stat. (Sup.), § 936-1] implementing Art. I, § 16 of the Washington state constitution, to condemn a connection for their land-locked acreage over property owned by the Sullivans and others to the nearest public highway, a distance of one-half mile. The route described in the order of necessity under review is what had been a county road, vacated by the commissioners of…