Mattson v. Defiance Lumber Co.

The Defiance Lumber Company owns and operates a large sawmill on the waterfront near the Tacoma smelter in the city of Tacoma. This mill has been in operation for nearly a quarter of a century, and furnishes employment to approximately two hundred people. A little back from the waterfront on which this mill is located is a steep bluff, and near the top of this bluff and about a quarter of a mile from the mill plant of the Defiance Lumber Company, Dr. Matt-son some few years ago purchased a tract of land, of approximately three hundred feet square, fronting on a boulevard which runs along the…