In re Appeal of City of North Yakima

Citations

• 87 Wash. 279
• 151 P. 795
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 909

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations—Improvements — Sewers — Benefits— Judicial Review. A determination by a city council that a sewer is a benefit to abutting property already served by an existing sewer, is a legislative question not subject to review by the courts in the absence of fraud, and is sustained by evidence that the existing sewer was inadequate and additional facilities were needed, or soon would be; as a city may anticipate future necessities.</p> <p>Same—Improvements—Sewers—Benefits — Evidence — Sufficiency. Property owners are benefited by the replacing of an old, inadequate sewer, to which they had no access except by mere license, by a new, larger and more efficient one which the legislative authorities of the city had decided was necessary, in the absence of fraud or arbitrary action.</p>