Brown v. City of Seattle

This is an appeal from an order and judgment of the superior court of King county confirming an assessment roll. In May, 1906, certain persons owning more than one-half of the property abutting upon and lying adjacent to Third, Fourth, and Fifth Avenues, between the intersection of these streets with Pine street on the east and Cherry street on the west, in the city of Seattle, petitioned the city council of that city to widen and regrade these avenues, with their intersecting cross streets, in accordance with certain specifications which were set forth in the petition. The city council…