In re West Waite Street

Citations

• 89 Wash. 688

Syllabus

<p>Appeal ■ — ■ Abstracts of Recobd — Statutes — Retroactive Operation. Laws of 1915, p. 300, dispensing with abstracts of record on appeal in certain cases, whereby failure to file the abstract is no longer ground for dismissal of the appeal, being remedial and intended to relieve from hardships in a matter of procedure not affecting the merits, will be given effect as to appeals pending before the passage of the act.</p> <p>Appeal — Record—Bill of Exceptions or Statement of Facts— Necessity. Where the invalidity of the order, appealed from as void on its face, appears from the transcript, no bill of exceptions or statement of facts is necessary.</p> <p>Trial — Verdict—Correction—Power of Court — Eminent Domain —Award. After a verdict is rendered and the jury is discharged, the court is without power to correct the verdict in matters of substance on the ground of inadvertence or mistake; and the correction of a verdict in eminent domain proceedings so as to divest the owners of title to a building which the verdict as rendered permitted them to remove, is a change in substance, reducing the amount of the verdict, which the court cannot make.</p>