Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Pierce County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Easterday, J., entered July 1, 1913, dismissing an action to recover a tax paid under protest, after a trial on the merits to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
In the years 1911 and 1912, the appellant, Northern Pacific Railway Company, owned a tract of land, approximately 100 feet in width and 21 miles in length, extending from a certain point in the city of Tacoma, called in the record the west portal of the Point Defiance tunnel, southerly, following near the shores of Puget Sound, to the boundary line between the counties of Pierce and Thurston. The land was procured by the railway company for railway purposes; it being intended for use as a part of its right of way for the relocation of its railroad between the city of Tacoma, in Pierce county,…
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- North Coast Railway v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1908
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