City of Bellevue v. Underwood

The appellant landowner appeals from a judgment in an eminent domain proceeding. The one valid assignment of error is to a finding of fact 1 respecting damages.

Cutting through a ponderous maze of confusing, bewildering and wholly irrelevant details, the record shows that the appellant owned commercial property in Bellevue which was improved by a supermarket. Upon acquisition of the property, appellant likewise acquired a nonexclusive easement over an adjacent private street which, at the time of trial, had been improved by blacktopping. It is used by the customers of the supermarket and…