Oberg v. Department of Natural Resources

114 Wn.2d 278 (1990)

787 P.2d 918

NORMAN A. OBERG, ET AL, Respondents,

v.

THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Appellant.

No. 54763-7.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

March 15, 1990.

Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, and John W. Hough and Mark S. Green, Assistants, for appellant.

Stanislaw, Ashbaugh, Chism, Jacobson & Riper, by Richard M. Stanislaw, John S. Riper, Terry R. Marston II, and David C. Burkett, for respondents.

BRACHTENBACH, J.

Plaintiffs sued the State of Washington, acting through its Department of Natural Resources (DNR), for damages sustained as a result of a fire which…