City of Seattle v. Kelleher
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON. The facts are stated in the opinion. The intention to dedicate and the acceptance of the city appear and constituted a valid common law 'dedication. Elliott on Roads and Streets, Ch. V, 85; Dillon on Mun. Corp., 4th ed., vol. 2, 737; 5 Am. & Eng.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON. The facts are stated in the opinion. The intention to dedicate and the acceptance of the city appear and constituted a valid common law 'dedication. Elliott on Roads and Streets, Ch. V, 85; Dillon on Mun. Corp., 4th ed., vol. 2, 737; 5 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, 395; New Orleans v. United States, 10 Peters, 662; City of Cincinnati v. White, 6 Peters, 431; Godfrey v. City of Alton, 12 Illinois, 29; Surgeant v. Bank, 4 McLean, 339. An incomplete statutory dedication may become one at comjnon law by acceptance by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court declaring an assessment upon the plaintiff’s land void under the Fourteenth Amendment, and enjoining the city against enforcing..the'same. The facts are these: Weller Street, in Seattle, runs east from Elliott Bay, and formerly stopped at the east line of Maynard’s Donation Claim. The land now belonging to the appellee, the plaintiff below, is a hundred acres lying on the east of that line, extending to the line of the Jackson Strqet Addition. Weller Street, if extended eastward, would run through the middle of this land for twenty-five…
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