Jones v. Gillis

Citations

• 75 Wash. 688
• 135 P. 627
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1771

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Streets — Change op Grade. Where street grades were established in 1878, and made of record and never changed, and improvements by pavement were made in 1904 on the grades established, the fact that the city between 1878 and 1904 permitted use of the streets in their natural condition and improved the same by minor temporary repairs until 1904, does not show a change of grade or adoption of the natural condition as the grades of the street; hence the city will not be enjoined from compelling property owners to reconstruct sidewalks constructed with notice of the true grade and voluntarily placed ten or eleven inches higher than grade in violation of the city ordinances (Chadwick;, J., dissenting) .</p>