Smith v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Belt, J., entered June 29, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for damages to property by the construction and operation of a railroad.
1Opinion of the CourtRoot, J.
Respondents are the owners of lots J and 8, in block 6, of Ide & Kauffman’s Addition to Spokane, which lots face upon the north side of Bridge avenue, a public street *356sixty feet in width, having an east and west course. Said lots extend from said avenue northerly one hundred and seventeen feet along the line of Cannon street, which is sixty feet wide, running north and south. Prior to this action appellant had constructed and was operating a railway line, which, for a distance of about a quarter of a mile to the east, and for a half mile to the west, of respondent’s property, paralleled said…
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