Shaw & Hodgins v. Waldron
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Snohomish county, Black, J., entered March 20, 1909, in favor of the plaintiffs upon stipulated facts, after a trial before the court without a jury, in an action to restrain a city in the collection of an assessment and from paying warrants issued in payment of a local improvement.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
In the year 1890, the city of Snohomish adopted ordinances creating improvement districts, made improvements, and issued warrants to cover the cost. In 1891 a special assessment was made upon the lands abutting on the streets which had been improved. In 1894 this assessment was adjudged by the court to be void; whereupon the city made another assessment which was also declared to be void. Thereafter, and from time to time, appellant Waldron, who was the holder of most of the warrants, urged and demanded of the city council that they make a reassessment upon the property benefited. This might…
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