In re Pike Street
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Morris, J., entered July 29, 1905, upon the assessr ment of benefits to property not taken, after an assessment by a jury of damages for property taken, in proceedings to appropriate lands for the widening of a street.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
— In September 1903, the city of Seattle by* ordinance directed that all that portion of Pike Street *552lying between Fourth Avenue, on the west, and Melrose and Minor Avenues, on the east, be widened and altered by including therein a strip ten feet in width on each side, to he taken from the abutting property. The ordinance directed the corporation counsel to commence a proceeding to ascertain the just compensation to be paid the owners whose property would he taken by the proposed improvement, and also for the damages, if any, caused the property not taken. The ordinance also provided that…
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