Seattle, Port Angeles & Lake Crescent Railway v. Land

— This is an appeal by the landowners from an award in condemnation. To avoid confusion, the parties will be designated throughout the condemnees as appellants and the condemner as respondent. The respondent sought to take a strip, of land one hundred feet wide, containing 2.79 acres, for a railroad right of way through forty acres of land, in Clallam county, belonging to the appellants. The land was practically unimproved. Topographically, it is divided into two parts wholly unlike in character. Approximately, the east half is low bottom land cut up by overflow channels of Morse’s creek. The…