State ex rel. City of Cle Elum v. County of Kittitas
Washington Supreme Court
Certiorari to review a judgment of the superior court for Kittitas county, Truax, J., entered April 5, 1918, adjudging a public use and necessity, in condemnation proceedings for a county road.
1Opinion of the CourtMackintosh, J.
Kittitas county is attempting to exercise its right of eminent domain for the purpose of acquiring a right of way for a county road over land owned by Cle Elum, a city of the third class. Judgment of condemnation was entered by the trial court, and the action is here on the city’s application to review that judgment.
Cle Elum, in 1910, acquired a tract of land approximately thirty-nine acres in area, situated about four miles outside of its corporate limits. The city created upon the property a reservoir for the storing of water to be used as an auxiliary supply for the city and its…
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