Bremerton Municipal League v. Bremer

This is a taxpayer’s suit to annul a lease of two street ends in the city of Bremerton, with the harbor areas in front of and adjacent thereto, and to restrain all of the parties defendant from carrying out its provisions. The relief prayed for was decreed by the trial court, and the defendants appeal from the decree.

The two streets involved, Front and Second, did not originally extend across the tide lands to the harbor area. The intervening tide lands were acquired by the city about 1913; in the one case, by condemnation (In re Bremerton, 73 Wash. 565, 132 Pac. 240); in the other, by…