State Ex Rel. Clark v. City of Seattle

On and prior to June 30, 1924, there was in use by the public a wooden trestle bridge or viaduct, crossing a valley in a diagonal direction, from Fifteenth avenue west to Thomdyke avenue in Seattle, commonly known as the West Wheeler street bridge. It was some 2,400 feet long, and was intersected by a branch bridge or viaduct. It was elevated above the ground about forty feet, and, where it crossed certain railroad tracks, it was supported by trusses raised on pile piers. It had been built under ordinances of the city, passed in 1910, and was paid for upon the local improvement district plan,…