Ashby v. City of Juneau

HUNT, District Judge.

The city of Juneau, appellee, brought this action against Oscar Ashby, appellant, .to condemn a property right in and to certain tide lands possessed and occupied by Ashby. The city wished to widen a public street, and to do so it became necessary to have a right of way over a portion of certain tide lands held, claimed, and .occupied by Ashby, so far as such lands abutted upon and extended into the proposed street. Prior to instituting proceedings in condemnation the city council passed' an ordinance providing for the establishing, opening, and widening of the street,…