Bjorvatn v. Pacific Mechanical Construction, Inc.

When the Bjorvatns bought their house on Sand Point Way Northeast in Seattle in 1962, they knew it had been badly damaged by a sinking of the land. They did not expect, however, that, years after they had repaired and restored the house, the construction of a sewer nearby would produce a similar damage. They bring this action against the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle and the sewer contractor for injuries to their house and land.

Oddmund Bjorvatn looked over the property at 9509 Sand Point Way Northeast carefully before he bought it in 1962. He saw that the land beneath the house had…