Cook v. City of Spokane

Citations

• 69 Wash. 526
• 125 P. 776
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 942

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations—Streets—Improvements—Assessment Districts—Limits. Where a section of a city charter contained a proviso that a street assessment district must be coterminous with the portion of the street improved and that the side lines shall not be more than 150 feet distant from the nearest line of the street improved, and the proviso was amended to read that “unless otherwise provided by ordinance” the assessment district shall be coterminous with the portion of the street improved, and “in such case” the side lines shall he 150 feet distant, etc., the amendment is not sufficiently definite and explicit to remove the 150-foot side limit imposed by the original charter provisions.</p>