Motoramp Garage Co. v. City of Tacoma

— The appellant has a long-term ground lease on four lots situated near the business center of the city of Tacoma, and has constructed thereon a seven-story building with storerooms facing on the abutting streets. Along one side of the building, on a street which has a grade of fourteen per cent, there is a concrete sidewalk twelve feet wide, under which the respondent is attempting to construct a public men’s toilet or comfort station, by occupying a space under the sidewalk twelve feet wide and forty feet long, the entrance to which is by means of a stairway leading down from the sidewalk…