Legal Opinion
Hughes v. King County
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided February 10, 1986No. 13562-7-IPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSwanson, J.
—Both parties appeal from a King County Superior Court judgment granting appellants recovery for damages sustained when a storm sewer owned, maintained, and operated by respondent/cross appellant King County, overflowed and flooded the appellants' property.
Most of the material facts are undisputed. The appellants, plaintiffs below, own real property on the west side of First Avenue South, between 150th and 152nd Streets in south King County, that is leased to appellant Evergreen Motors, Inc., for use as an automobile showroom and parking lot. The land lies largely in a swale. In 1956, King…
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