McMoran v. State

This appeal involves an action for damages by an abutting property owner for interference by the state with his easement of ingress and egress to the highway.

The department of highways constructed a concrete curb along the edge of the outside lane of the traveled portion of the thoroughfare (state primary highway No. 2 in Chelan county), thirty-five feet from the outer edge of the highway right of way, upon which the plaintiff’s property abuts, paralleling the entire frontage of his property. The thirty-five foot strip between the curb line and the plaintiff’s property line has been converted…