State Ex Rel. Sherman Creek Land & Irrigation Co. v. Superior Court

Relator, Sherman Creek Land & Irrigation Company, a corporation, in this proceeding seeks to review a decree of private necessity and judgment of appropriation, entered by the superior court for Ferry county* upon petition of Hedlund Lumber & Manufacturing Company, a corporation; the petitioner invoking the power of eminent domain in seeking to condemn what it alleges to be a private way of necessity across the lands of relator.

The condemnation proceeding was instituted pursuant to ch. 133, Laws of 1913, p. 412, being § 6747 et seq., of Remington’s Compiled Statutes; and after a lengthy…