State Ex Rel. Chesterley v. Superior Court

During the month of July, 1943, the state of Washington filed in the superior court for Yakima county seven notices in condemnation, including one in which John F. Chesterley and others were respondents, seeking an adjudication of public use of, and to condemn and appropriate, certain real estate and other property in Yakima county, “for the construction, maintenance and operation of a drift fence and for the establishment of a game animal sanctuary.” All seven proceedings came on regularly for hearing before the court August 24, 1943, and were consolidated for trial, in so far as the entry…