City of Seattle v. Doran

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scott, J.

In April, 1890, the city of Seattle commenced two suits to foreclose liens claimed by it against the defendants, for the cost of the impi’ovement of Fifth street assessed against certain property owned by said defendants respectively, one suit being to enforce the lien against lots four and five, in block thirty-five of Boren’s addition to the city, belonging to Elizabeth Anderson, and the other to foreclose such lien against lot seven, of block thirty-four, of said addition, the property of Francis Doran. By consent the cases were tried…