Megrath v. Nickerson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

This action was brought by the appellant, as owner of certain lands in King county, against the county commissioners of said county, to restrain them from establishing and using as a highway a strip of *236land crossing said premises. In 1873 a petition was filed with the county commissioners of King county, praying that a road be opened from Alii Point to a point at or near Parmerlee’s' bouse, on tbe west side of tbe Duwamish river, in King county. Parmerlee’s house is three or four miles south of said Alii Point. The commissioners ordered a…