State ex rel. Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Superior Court

The city of Georgetown, in King county, passed an ordinance providing for the extension of -a public. street in that city, known as Saunders Avenue, from a point near its present terminus to Rainier Avenue. The street as projected crossed the tracks of the Northern Pacific Railway Company and the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Company, and condemnation proceedings were begun by the city' against the companies to procure the necessary right of way. On the hearing the trial court adjudged that the contemplated use to which the city sought to appropriate the property was a public use, and…