White v. King County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Smith, J., entered May 11, 1916, in favor of the plaintiff, upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, in an action for damages from change of grade.
1Per curiam
— The appellant, individually and as executrix of the estate of her deceased husband, began this action on March 16, 1915, to recover consequential damages caused to certain lands as the result of increased seepage and drainage thereon by reason of raising the grade of an established county road.
*328The complaint alleges that the appellant and her husband, in the year 1901, donated a sixty-foot right of way to the county for road purposes, and that the initial improvement of the road was made during the same year by grading a roadway in the center thereof sixteen feet in width and surfacing the…
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