Stone-Easter, Inc. v. City of Seattle

The city of Seattle, by ordinance duly enacted, provided for the paving of Tenth Avenue Northeast, from its junction with Bast Fortieth street to its junction with East Eighty-Fifth street, a distance of some two and a quarter miles. It was provided that the expense of the improvement, less some $82,000 which the city appropriated from its various funds toward the costs, should be borne by the property benefited. In the same ordinance it established an assessment district, which it described as “all the property between the termini1 of said improvement, abutting upon, adjacent, vicinal or…