Hab v. City of Georgetown

Citations

• 46 Wash. 642
• 91 P. 10
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 679

Syllabus

<p>Highways — Location—Width of Road — Notice. Under Code of 1881, § 2971, providing that all county roads shall be sixty feet in width unless, on the prayer of the petitioners, the county commissioners shall determine on a less width, the commissioners have power to fix a less width upon the prayer of any of the petitioners at the hearing, without giving any.new notice, as the law did not require the notice to state the width petitioned for.</p> <p>Same. Upon a prayer by petitioners for a county road, to fix the width at thirty feet, under Code 1881, § 2971, the county commissioners have a discretion to determine upon a width of forty feet.</p> <p>Same — Compensation—Waiver—Eminent Domain. A petition to the county commissioners by an abutting owner to open a forty-foot county road to the width of sixty feet, does not grant the right to take his abutting property without compensation.</p>