Tenny v. Seattle Electric Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered June 8, 1907, in favor of the defendants, dismissing proceedings had under a writ of certiorari issued to review the action of a city council in granting a franchise for street railway purposes, after a trial before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtCrow, J.
On March 18, 1907, the council of Columbia, a city of the third class in King county, Washington, passed an ordinance granting to the Seattle Electric Company, a corporation, a franchise to construct maintain, and operate a street car line over and upon certain streets and highways. Lewis E. Tenny and Carrie B.' Tenny, his wife, the relators and appellants herein, were then, and still are, owners of block . 89, Maynard’s Lake Washington Addition to the city of Seattle, now within the corporate limits of the city of Columbia. Many years ago a public county road, known as road No. 169, extended…
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