Koch v. Sackman-Phillips Investment Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J.

— The complaint alleged that the defendants had wrongfully caused a quantity of water, sand, gravel, rocks and debris to overflow and settle upon plaintiff’s lots in the city of Seattle to his damage. Whereupon the Sackman-Phillips Investment Company answered affirmatively to the following effect: It was the owner, with one Colman, of all the lots fronting on all the streets, save one, in the Twelfth avenue addition, the said streets having been fully dedicated to the public. Desiring to have these streets graded it procured the passage of…