Department of Transportation v. Snohomish County

On March 17, 1947, the director of the department of transportation of the state of Washington made an order closing the grade crossing of Park avenue in the town of Mukilteo, in Snohomish county, to vehicular traffic over the tracks of the Great Northern Railway Com,pany. The superior court of Washington, for Snohomish county, issued a writ of review. In response to the writ, the department certified to the court a transcript of oral testimony, taken at a hearing conducted by it prior to the making of an order; also, the exhibits introduced in evidence, its findings of fact, and the closure…