Ettor v. City of Tacoma
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Chapman, J., entered April 8, 1909, in favor of the defendants, upon granting a nonsuit dismissing an action for damages for the original grading of a street.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
This is an action instituted by plaintiffs to recover damages consequent upon grading certain streets in the city of Tacoma. Under § 47, chap. 84, Laws 1893, and § 48, chap. 153, Laws 1907, such damages were recoverable. The legislature of 1909, Laws 1909, p. 151,. § 1 (Rem. & Bal. Code, § 7815), repealed this law so that no remedy existed at the time this case was tried in the lower court. Judgment was rendered against plaintiffs in the court below, and they have appealed.
Many questions are raised, but we think the act of the last legislature has reduced this case to a single abstract…
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