City of Spokane v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.

Citations

• 75 Wash. 426
• 134 P. 1069
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 2230

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Public Improvements — Assessments— General and Special Benefits — Review—Evidence—Admissibility. In reviewing a special assessment, an offer to prove that the assessment was unreasonable and unjust in that between fifty and seventy-five per cent of the cost should be paid by the general public, the benefits being derived therefrom being general benefits, is properly-rejected as immaterial, inasmuch as the city cannot be assessed unless specially benefited, and general benefits cannot be made the basis of an assessment, and the offer of proof did not go to show arbitrary or fraudulent action, or that the commission proceeded upon' a fundamentally wrong basis, or that the city was specially benefited.</p>