City of Walla Walla v. A. M. Jensen Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Walla Walla county, Mills, J., entered April 5, 1920, upon findings in favor of plaintiff, awarding damages for the condemnation of property, after trial on the merits to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
— This appeal is from an order of the lower court awarding damages for property taken in a condemnation proceeding. The city of Walla Walla condemned a strip of land sixty feet wide for a street known as Colville street, across the property of Adolph Schwarz within the city. It appears that, in the year 1905, Mr. Schwarz entered into a contract with the Masonic Temple Association permitting that association to build a wall of brick and stone, one hundred and twenty feet in length, eighteen inches thick and two stories high, on the line between property then owned by each of the parties. This…
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