Robinson v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered August 16, 1909, confirming an assessment roll for a local improvement, after a hearing on the merits.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
The city of Seattle, by Ordinance No. 15,923, provided for the laying off, extending and establishing of South Shilshole Place, Emerson street, and an unnamed street, as public streets, and for condemning five detached tracts of land for that purpose. The ordinance provided that an assessment should be made upon the property benefited, for the purpose of compensating the owners of the property taken, and for the costs of the proceeding, in the manner provided by law. Thereafter, in obedience to the provisions of the ordinance and the statute, a jury trial was had for the purpose of…
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