Austin v. City of Everett

Citations

• 61 Wash. 493
• 112 P. 658
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1108

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Improvements—Assessment of Benefits. An assessment of benefits from the condemnation of land for street extensions through unplatted property should be set aside for manifest abuse of discretion, where the commissioners assessed the unplatted property at about ten times as much as platted property, irrespective of its relation to the streets or the benefits received, arbitrarily assuming that the same was benefited greatly in excess of platted property; and it is an abuse of discretion for the trial judge to select commissioners who will, or influence-them to, make such an assessment.</p>