State ex rel. Merriam v. Superior Court
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Huneke, J., entered March 6, 1909, adjudging a public use and awarding damages in a proceeding to condemn property for railway purposes, after a trial before the court and a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
These two actions grow out of a condemnation proceeding, and were presented here together by one brief. In September, 1908, the North Coast Railway Company filed a petition in the superior court of Spokane county, seeking to condemn for railway purposes two lots, the property of Rufus Merriam and wife, in the city of Spokane. In December, 1908, the petition came on to be heard upon the preliminary question of the public use and the necessity for taking the property. The court, after a hearing, found that the contemplated use for which the property was sought was really a public use, and that…
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