Water District No. 97 v. Washington Waterworks Corp.

The petitioner, hereinafter called the water district, brought this action to condemn the waterworks of the respondent-relator corporation, hereinafter called the corporation.

The corporation by certiorari challenges the trial court’s decree of public use and necessity.

The water district was organized in 1955 under the *538provisions of ROW 57. It served about twenty-three hundred customers from four wells east of Lake Sammamish. In 1959, the water district annexed the. contiguous territory served by the corporation, which is larger in area and contains about seven thousand people. It thereupon…