Aylmore v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Jurey, J., entered May 9, 1917, upon granting a nonsuit, dismissing an action of ejectment, tried to the court and a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtWebster, J.
This is an action to recover the possession or, in the alternative, the value of property alleged to have been taken and appropriated to public use.
The amended complaint in the cause, which was commenced on October 17, 1916, alleges, in substance, that the plaintiffs are the owners of three parcels of land in the city of Seattle; that, in 1913, the defendant, without their consent, entered upon and commenced to improve the property as parts of certain public thor*516oughfares, which improvement was completed and the streets opened for travel in the summer of 1914; that the defendant is now…
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