CAPITOL HILL METH. CH. OF SEATTLE v. City of Seattle

This is an action to enjoin the closing, obstruction, or vacation of east John street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth avenues north, in the city of Seattle. To avoid the necessity of complicated written descriptions of the streets and lots, involved in this controversy, and in an attempt to simplify our discussion of the underlying legal principles, the area in question, with the parties’ properties identified, has been reproduced in the following map:-

The defendant Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Inc., is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of…