Osborne v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered December 6, 1907, upon findings in favor of the defendants, after a trial on the merits before the court without a jury» dismissing an action to restrain a city from improving a strip of land as streets.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiffs to restrain the city of Seattle from improving as streets a strip of land eighty feet in width to the west of block 6, and, also, a strip of land eighty feet in width north of block 2, as shown on the accompanying plat.
The plaintiffs claim a triangular piece of ground to the west of block 6 and north of block 2, by mesne conveyances from the patentees of the United States. The defendants claim that Government street extends north, eighty feet in width, to the west side of block 6, and that Elliott street extends west, eighty feet in width, on the…
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