Legal Opinion

Michaelson v. City of Seattle

Washington Supreme Court

Decided April 21, 1911No. 9266PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Frater, J., entered April 25, 1910, in favor of the plaintiffs, after a trial before the court without a jury, in an action to vacate a portion of a judgment rendered in condemnation proceedings, and for the cancellation of an assessment for a public improvement.

1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.

The plaintiffs seek to have decreed void a judgment rendered in a condemnation proceeding, prosecuted against them by the city of Seattle, upon a verdict of a jury awarding them damages for injuries to certain lots in the widening and changing of the grade of certain streets, in so *232far as the judgment assumes to adjudicate that the lots are liable to assessment for the improvement; and, also, to cancel the assessment levied upon the lots to pay the cost of the improvement. From a decree in the plaintiffs’ favor, the city has appealed.

Under chapter 55, Laws 1905, page 84, the city of Seattle,…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Reynolds v. StocktonSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  2. Gille v. EmmonsSupreme Court of Kansas · 1897
  3. Seamster v. BlackstockSupreme Court of Virginia · 1887
  4. Unfried v. HebererIndiana Supreme Court · 1878
  5. Anderson v. BurgoyneWashington Supreme Court · 1910

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Sloan v. WestWashington Supreme Court · 1911
  2. In re the Appeal of PattersonWashington Supreme Court · 1917
  3. Richardson v. City of SeattleWashington Supreme Court · 1917
  4. Connor v. City of SeattleWashington Supreme Court · 1914
  5. Seattle School District No. 1 v. City of SeattleWashington Supreme Court · 1911

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