State ex rel. Hulme v. Grays Harbor & Puget Sound Railway Co.

This is a proceeding by certiorari to review a decree of condemnation, entered in the superior court of Chehalis county. The respondent, a railroad corporation, on June 15, 1907, filed a petition in the lower court alleging the essential facts showing its right to condemn for a public use a strip of land fifty feet in width across tide land lot No. 6, tract No. 17, of the Aberdeen tide lands, belonging to the relators, except it did not allege that the whole amount *532of its capital stock had been subscribed. The relators answered and joined issue on all the material allegations of the petition,…