State ex rel. Eastern Railway & Lumber Co. v. Superior Court for Lewis County

The relator, Eastern Railway & Lumber Company, seeks, in this court, review and reversal of an order of adjudication of necessity, rendered by the superior court for Lewis county, awarding to Susie A. Chatten and her associates, doing business under the name of Union Lumber Company, the right to condemn a private way of necessity for use as a logging road, over and across land in Lewis county belonging to Eastern Railway & Lumber Company.

Union Lumber Company owns and operates a large sawmill and logging plant in Thurston and Lewis counties. It also owns standing timber on sections 4 and 5,…