Desimone v. Shields

Appellants, as plaintiffs, brought this action to set aside the proceedings leading up to the formation of a water district, and to cancel and set aside the purported liens upon lands owned by them created by the water district and by a local improvement district organized under and coextensive with the water district. The trial court, on the merits, denied the plaintiffs any relief, and they have appealed.

Speaking generally, it appears that in 1926 there was a community containing approximately three thousand acres of land, adjacent to the city of Seattle on the south, and bisected by the…