State Ex Rel. Puget Sound & Baker River Railway Co. v. Joiner

What is knoAvn as the Cascade highway extends from a point in the Cascade mountains fourteen miles east of Marblemount to the proposed bridge over Deception pass. Between Butler and Burlington, the road pursues a Avinding course — having several right angle turns.

September 5, 1934, the county commissioners of Skagit county, purporting to act under authority of chapter 35, Laws of 1911, p. 118 (Rem. Rev. Stat., § 6773 [P. C. § 6157] et seq.), passed a resolution providing for the construction of a road between Butler and Burlington, designed to straighten the Cascade highway between those…