Trimble v. City of Seattle
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. The facts, which involve the validity of assessments on lands leased by the City of Seattle to the plaintiffs in error, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is an attempt to reverse a judgment confirming an assessment on certain leaseholds of tide lands. The leases were executed by the State in 1899. Subsequent statutes of 1905 and 1907 respectively, authorized the assessment of such leaseholds for local improvements specially benefiting them, and the inclusion of them within local improvement districts by cities of the first class. The City of Seattle made a plank roadway, created an improvement district, levied an assessment which failed, Coast Land Co. v. Seattle, 52 Washington, 380, and then in due form levied the reassessment that is in…
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