State Ex Rel. Chelan Electric Co. v. Superior Court

This is a certiorari proceeding to review an order denying an application for an adjudication of public use and necessity in a condemnation case.

Tbe facts follow: Relator is a public service corporation wbicb desires to expropriate tbe right to overflow certain lands of tbe respondents for tbe purpose of raising tbe surface of Lake Chelan, and thereby developing a large amount of electric energy. Tbe primary purpose of tbe corporation appears to have been to furnish motive power for tbe operation of tbe trains of tbe Great Northern Railway Company, but, owing to tbe fact that tbe railway…