Coast Land Co. v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 52 Wash. 380
• 100 P. 856
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1124

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Local Improvements — Assessments— State Lands — Leaseholds—Statutes — Constitutional Law — Due Process. Laws 1907, p. 123, providing for the assessment of the entire fee of state lands benefited by local improvements, and if the same has been leased, that the leasehold interest may be sold to satisfy the entire assessment, is void, as depriving the lessee of his property without due process of law.</p> <p>Same. Such an assessment cannot be sustained in a given case where only the leasehold interest was benefited by the improvement, since the lessee has not had his day in court to question the benefits, where the assessment was not made against the leasehold.</p> <p>Same — Sale of Leasehold to Satisfy Assessment Against Fee. Laws 1905, p. 267, providing for the assessment and sale of the leasehold of state lands as a separate entity, when benefited by a local improvement, cannot be invoked to sustain a sale of leasehold interests under an assessment of the entire fee.</p>