Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. City of Georgetown
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Tallman, J., entered November 16, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury, rendered for nominal damages by direction of the court, in condemnation proceedings.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
As the statement in appellants’ brief seems to be in exact accordance with the record, we will adopt it as the statement of the case. The community known as Georgetown has grown up on both sides of the railroad rights of way of the two appellants, and the territory thus occupied has been incorporated as the city of Georgetown, a city of the third class. The railroad rights of way run at this point in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction, the business district and some of the residence district being to the southwest and the exclusively residence district to the north and east of these…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
- Rogers v. City of St. CharlesMissouri Court of Appeals · 1876
- Robertson v. HartenbowerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1903
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