Thompson v. Lennox

¶1 Donald R. Thompson and Sheri D. Nimmo appeal the trial court’s award of appellate fees and costs against them following dismissal of their abandoned appeal. We reverse.

FACTS

¶2 This case began as a dispute between neighbors, when one neighbor built a house that blocked the other’s view. Don Thompson and Sheri Nimmo (hereafter Thompsons) built their home in the Summer Hills development of Brush Prairie, Washington. They owned vacant land across the street to the west of their residence and *482planned to keep the land in order to preserve their view of the mountains and horizon beyond it.

¶3 In…