Compton v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Bell, J., entered October 20, 1904, dismissing an action to enjoin a change of grade and damage to abutting property, upon sustaining a demurrer to the plaintiff’s reply.
1Opinion of the CourtGrow, J.
This action was commenced by appellants Horace F. Compton and Anna. B. Compton, his wife, against the city of Seattle; a municipal corporation, and B. H. Thomson, A. Lincoln Walters, and Luther B. Young, as members of the board of public works of said city, respondents, to enjoin said respondents from entering upon, taking, and damaging certain real estate of appellants. The complaint alleges, that appellants were, at the time of filing said complaint, and had been at all times for ten years prior thereto, the owners in fee simple of the easterly one hundred and eight feet of lot 4 in block…
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