City of Spokane v. Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Huneke, J., entered January 22, 1913, dismissing a proceeding for a writ of mandate, upon sustaining demurrers to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtMourns, J.
In July, 1912, the city of Spokane passed an ordinance whereby it required the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Company, the Northern Pacific Railway Company, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway Company, and the Washington Water Power Company, a local street railway company, to separate the grades of their tracks crossing Sheridan street, between Front and Olive avenues, and crossing Olive avenue near its intersection with Sheridan street
“from the grades of said streets and avenues by filling said streets and avenues, building retaining walls, abutments, viaduct, new bridge across…
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