City of Seattle v. Gatton
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gilliam, J., entered September 12, 1912, confirming an assessment for a local improvement, upon appeal from the eminent domain commissioners.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The city of Seattle by ordinance directed that Eighth avenue west and Ninth avenue west, with certain others of its streets, be widened, and condemnation proceedings were had to acquire the read property necessary to be taken for that purpose. The awards made by the jury for the property taken, added to the costs of the proceedings, aggregated $28,410.25. The appellants, Asa Gatton and Alice Gatton, his wife, owned a tract of land lying between Eighth avenue west and Ninth avenue west, having a frontage on each of these streets of 260 feet. In the widening of the streets, a strip of land…
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