Price v. Humptulips Driving Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Grays Harbor county, Hewen, J., entered February 10, 1923, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for damages from the taking of land without compensation.
1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, J.
This action was commenced in December, 1921, by respondents, to recover of the appellant compensation under the constitution, in the sum of $62,000, for the taking and damaging by appellant of respundents’ lands along the Humptulips river, caused by the operations of appellant in splashing the river, *70and in/ going- upon the lands in question for the purpose of driving saw logs down the river. The complaint alleges that some two hundred fifty acres of land had thus been washed away, and appellant has used and occupied the remaining lands for roads over which to move donkey engines, and for…
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