Provine v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gay, J., entered November 2, 1909, in favor of the defendants, notwithstanding the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for damages to property by reason of the regrade of a street.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
On April 19, 1906, the city of Seattle, by ordinance duly enacted, directed certain of its streets to be regraded, among which was a street known as Stewart street. The plan and specifications for the regrade called for a dirt fill on Stewart street, where it passed the northerly side of lot four, in block six, of Sarah A. Bell’s addition to the city of Seattle, of some eighteen feet at the northeast corner and sloping downward to twelve feet at the northwest corner. To hold the fill in place, the plans provided for an enbankment with a slope of one and one-half feet laterally to one foot in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Seattle Lighting Co. v. HawleyWashington Supreme Court · 1909
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