City of Seattle v. Forrest

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Anders, J.

In pursuance of a resolution of the city council, the city of Seattle applied to the board *424of state land commissioners to obtain a review and readjustment of the plat of the tide lands in front of the city, which was made and filed with the board by the local board of tide land appraisers for King county, and especially a change of the direction and location of certain streets laid out by said local board as indicated upon their plat. The board of state land commissioners declined to consider the petition for the reason that, in its opinion,…