Legal Opinion

Everett Railway, Light & Water Co. v. City of Everett

Washington Supreme Court

Decided July 17, 1917No. 13425½Published

Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Snohomish county, Alston, J., entered November 18, 1915, dismissing an action to restrain the enforcement of an ordinance, upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.

1Per curiam

This case is in all respects the same as that of Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Everett, ante p. 259, 166 Pac. 650, with the exception that the ordinance granting the franchise is not set out in full in the complaint. The respondents seek to differentiate it by the contention that the description of the franchise as epitomized in *699the complaint contains nothing which is in any wise affected hy the license tax imposed hy the charter and ordinance set forth in the ease cited. But, in our opinion, sufficient is alleged to show the nature of the franchise under which the appellant is acting, and that…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of EverettWashington Supreme Court · 1917

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