Hill v. Newell
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Dykeman, J., entered August 8, 1914, in favor of the defendants, in an action for an injunction, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Respondents are the commissioners of Commercial Waterway District No. 1, a municipal corporation organized under the act of 1911, Laws of 1911, p. 11 (3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 8166a), and the act of 1913, amendatory thereof, Laws of 1913, p. 115 (3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 8170a).
Acting in their public capacity, respondents undertook the improvement and straightening of the Duwamish river, a navigable stream. There is a bend in the Duwamish river as it originally flowed, known locally, and referred to in the record, as the Ox Bow Bend. A part of the improvement *228made by respondents was to cut a…
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