Briedablik, Big Valley, Lofall, Edgewater, Surfrest, North End Community Ass'n v. Kitsap County

(dissenting)—The majority holds that once a county is sued in an adjoining county, the county sued cannot obtain a change of venue regardless of what showing it may make. I respectfully dissent on three separate grounds—none of which relate to the merits of that result.

First, the majority's intricate interpretation of two statutes plain on their face loses sight of that most elementary of all rules of statutory construction, that

Where the language of the statutes involved is clear and unambiguous it requires no construction or interpretation.

*120(Italics mine.) Thompson v. Lewis Cy., 92 Wn.2d…