State Ex Rel. Ogden v. City of Bellevue

Appellant,' plaintiff below, wanted a site for a fruit and produce market. He found and bought a suitable location in King county on the east side of secondary state highway 2-A, which ran to Kirkland in a north-south direction through the unincorporated town of Bellevue. The property runs two hundred feet along the highway and is one hundred fifty feet deep. The easterly seventy-five feet was zoned B-l (business), and the westerly seventy-five feet as A-l (agriculture).

Bellevue was incorporated as a city of the third class shortly after appellant bought the property. It immediately created a…