Parosa v. City of Tacoma

This appeal brings here for review two actions which were consolidated for trial, both involving an attempted incorporation of a fourth-class town.2

Appellant Parosa and others petitioned to incorporate a fourth-class town containing two large tracts of land connected by a very narrow strip. The easterly tract comprises one fourth of the area and includes all but forty-three of the residents of the projected town. The other tract contains over one thousand acres and is owned by the Port of Tacoma which has comprehensive long-range plans for the development of its property for industrial…