State ex rel. Galbraith v. Superior Court

The respondent Spokane Valley Land & Water Company, which we will hereafter call the company, commenced eminent domain proceedings in the superior court for Spokane county to acquire a right of way over land of the relators for the purpose of a canal to carry water to and irrigate land belonging to it. The cause came on for hearing before the court upon the questions of public use and necessity, when the court, after the introduction of evidence and argument of counsel upon those questions, adjudged that the proposed use was public and that the right of way sought to be acquired was necessary…