State v. Superior Court

The relators, by certiorari, seek a review of findings of public use and necessity made by the respondent court in eminent domain proceedings instituted by the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company to condemn the property rights of relators as owners of lots abutting upon Front street, in the city of Kennewick. Relators’ lots abut upon the southerly side of the street, with a frontage thereon of about seventy-five feet. The railroad company proposes to construct, on the north thirty feet of the street, a double track railway as a part of its main line. Prior to the institution of…