Metropolitan Building Co. v. King County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Robert H. Lindsay, Esq., judge pro tempore, entered June 10, 1910, in favor of the plaintiff, reducing an assessed valuation on real property, after a hearing on the merits before the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
This case will require but a meager statement of the facts, the question for our determination being one of law only. Respondent is the owner of a lease on the old university campus in the city of Seattle. The tract, originally compact, has been intersected by streets and laid out in city lots, it being the intention of respondent to finally cover the tract with permanent structures. The aggregate rentals to be paid the university during the term of the lease, which is fifty years, will amount to the sum of $3,914,000, and the buildings erected or to be erected become at once the property of…
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