City of Spokane v. Miles

Citations

• 72 Wash. 571
• 131 P. 206
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 2131

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Improvements—Assessments—Review by Courts. An assessment district fixed by commissioners will not be changed by the courts unless the commissioners acted arbitrarily or fraudulently, or upon a fundamentally wrong basis; and not for a mere difference of opinion as to what were the proper limits.</p> <p>Same — Assessment—Apportionment. A city need not be charged with part of the cost of a local improvement, where there was no evidence that any special benefit accrued to the city at large.</p> <p>Same — Proceedings—Ordinance—Variance. It is not a material variance that an ordinance directed a local improvement to be paid wholly or in part by a special assessment upon property benefited, and the judgment recited that the ordinance required the same to be paid for in whole by such assessment, where the board of eminent domain commissioners found that no part of the cost should be borne by the city.</p>