Legal Opinion

Board of Harbor Line Commissioners v. State ex rel. Yesler

Washington Supreme Court

Decided July 8, 1891No. 216PublishedCited by 18 opinions

Appeal from, Superior Court} King County. This is an appeal from the judgment of the superior court of King county, in a proceeding by the relator for a writ of prohibition against the respondents, by which judgment the motion of the respondents to quash the alternative writ of prohibition first issued having been treated as a demurrer to the affidavit upon which the application for the alternative writ had been granted, was overruled, and the writ of prohibition was made…

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Appeal from, Superior Court} King County. This is an appeal from the judgment of the superior court of King county, in a proceeding by the relator for a writ of prohibition against the respondents, by which judgment the motion of the respondents to quash the alternative writ of prohibition first issued having been treated as a demurrer to the affidavit upon which the application for the alternative writ had been granted, was overruled, and the writ of prohibition was made absolute. The substance of the facts made to appear by that affidavit is, that the relator, a resident of the city of…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoyt, J.

— The most important questions in this case are the same as those discussed and covered by the opinion in the case of Eisenbach v. Hatfield, ante, p. 236 (decided at the last session of this court). Yet in view of the immense interests involved in the principles therein announced we have again gladly' listened to the able arguments of counsel made before us, and have carefully examined the exhaustive briefs filed, and again reviewed all of the questions decided in the case above cited; and it is only necessary for me to say that the opinion of…

2Cited by18 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Martin v. Superior CourtWashington Supreme Court · 1917
  2. State ex rel. Townsend Gas & Electric Light Co. v. Superior CourtWashington Supreme Court · 1899
  3. Ghione v. StateWashington Supreme Court · 1946
  4. Brace & Hergert Mill Co. v. StateWashington Supreme Court · 1908
  5. City of New Whatcom v. Fairhaven Land Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1901

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