Levy v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Frater, J., entered April 30,1910, after a trial on the merits before the court without a jury, dismissing an action to cancel an assessment upon property benefited by a local improvement.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiffs to set aside an assessment levied upon their property for local improvements, and also to restrain the city and its officers from enforcing collection of the assessment. The action is based upon the alleged ground that the property of the plaintiffs was not liable to assessment because in a prior condemnation proceeding, where a portion of the plaintiffs’ property was taken, it was determined that the property was damaged in the sum of one dollar over and above the benefits accruing by reason of the improvement. For answer to the complaint, the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Schuchard v. City of SeattleWashington Supreme Court · 1908
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