City of Tacoma v. Brown

This is an appeal from an award of damages for the taking of certain property by the city of Tacoma. Two questions are raised on this appeal. The one is that the property so taken is not taken for a public use, and that the parties appellant have been deprived of an opportunity for a hearing upon that question; the other, that the damages are insufficient to compensate appellants, and that the form of the verdict does not conform to the statutory requirements. The necessity for the taking of appellants’ property was declared by ordinance, and thereafter a petition was filed in the superior…