Marshall v. Whatcom County

This case presents, among other things, the question considered and decided in Wong Kee Jun v. Seattle, ante p. 479, 255 Pac. 645. The complaint contains four causes of action, all based upon the removal of lateral support in improving and maintaining a public highway, causing slides of earth and rock over and upon the plaintiffs’ agricultural land, obstructing their drainage system, lessening or destroying the productivity of the land, and the removal and casting of the debris from the highway upon the plaintiffs’ land, with like effect. The slides occurred on and subsequent to December 27,…