State v. Superior Court

C. E. Sayres and others began an action in the superior court for Walla Walla county, wherein Samuel J. Humes, designated in the complaint as state highway director, E. D. Simpson, described therein as a district engineer in the employ of the state highway department, and seven others, employees of the highway director’s office, named under fictitious names, were made defendants.

■ I11 the complaint, plaintiffs alleged their several ownerships of real property abutting on Preston avenue in and without the city of Waitsburg ; that the grade of this highway had been legally established and their…