Martenis v. City of Tacoma
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., entered July 5, 1911, confirming an assessment roll for a local improvement, after a hearing on the merits before the court.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
On July 2, 1905, the city of Tacoma passed an ordinance authorizing and directing the city attorney to institute and prosecute an action in the name of the city for the condemnation of a specifically described tract of land “to be used as and for a public street, and for the purpose of laying out, opening, and providing a street” between certain designated terminals. The proposed street lay wholly on the property of the appellants.. The ordinance provided that payment for the tract so taken should be made by an assessment against the property benefited by the establishment of the street. No…
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