Standard Furniture Co. v. City of Seattle

This is an appeal from a judgment of no damages to appellant, in the Western Avenue (Seattle) regrade case. The case was originally tried in May, 1909, and a new trial was granted. The case again came on for trial in June, 1909. Many irregularities in procedure were charged in the first trial and the proceedings leading up to it, all of which, in our opinion, have become unimportant and will not be now considered. However, it may be material in our discussion of the questions which we do find in the record to say that it appeared on the first trial that the Washington Mattress Company, a…