State ex rel. Dominick v. Superior Court
Washington Supreme Court
Certiorari to review a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gilliam, J., entered December 23, 1908; decreeing a public use and necessity, in proceedings to condemn wafer rights for an electric power plant.
1Opinion of the CourtRudkin, C. J.
The petitioner is a corporation, organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of generating and transmitting electrical current and electrical power for uses claimed to be public, within the purview of our constitution. As such corporation it instituted this proceeding in the court below to condemn and appropriate the waters of White river flowing past certain lands belonging to the defendants. The uses and purposes to which the electricity generated and transmitted are to be applied are thus set forth in the findings of the court:
“Said electricity and electric power so to be…
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