Provine v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gay, J., entered June 12, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for damages to property by reason of the regrade of a street.
1Per curiam
This action was commenced by H. F: Pro-vine against. the city of Seattle and H. W. Hawley and L. C. Lane, copartners as Hawley & Lane, to recover damages resulting from defendants’ wrongful acts in placing earth against plaintiff’s building, causing it to move or slide from its foundation and to be partially destroyed. Plaintiff claimed damages in the sum of $2,892.15 for injuries to the building, and for loss of profits from his business which was necessarily suspended.' The jüry returned a verdict for $1,692.15. Thereafter the defendants interposed separate motions for a new trial, and for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Provine v. City of SeattleWashington Supreme Court · 1910
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