State ex rel. Washington Boom Co. v. Chehalis Boom Co.

The relator, Washington Boom Company, seeks to acquire hy eminent domain proceedings the right to extend and maintain its boom for catching, sorting, holding and delivering logs and other timber products in the waters of that portion of Preachers slough which runs in a northerly and westerly direction through section 21, township 17, range 8, in Chehalis county, as against the rights of the respondent, Chehalis B’oom Company, the owner of the land in that section bordering upon the slough. The cause came on for preliminary hearing in the superior court for Chehalis county, upon the question…