Pierce County v. Thompson
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., entered January 2, 1914, dismissing condemnation proceedings in aid of a drainage district, upon challenging the constitutionality of the drainage district act.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
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This is an eminent domain proceeding prosecuted by Pierce county under Laws of 1913, ch. 176, p. 611 (3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 4226-1 et. seq.), relating to establishing drainage improvement districts. An improvement district having been duly created by the county commis*441sioners with a view to draining about eighteen hundred acres of land, this proceeding was commenced in the superior court for Pierce county, against the several owners of land through which the ditches were to run, for the acquiring of necessary rights of way therefor. The question of public use and necessity came regularly on…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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