Ludwigs v. City of Walla Walla

Citations

• 83 Wash. 205
• 145 P. 193
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 671

Syllabus

<p>Lihitation of Actions — Accrual-—Change of Street Grades— Violation of Ordinance. Limitations against an action to restrain a city from the violation of an unrepealed ordinance officially establishing curb grades, by the threatened lowering of the grade without first paying compensation, begin to run with each actual physical change, and not from the date of an ordinance authorizing an improvement under which certain previous physical changes had been made contrary to the originally established grades.</p> <p>Municipal Corporations — Street Grades •— Change — Damages. Both the city and property owners are bound to observe and conform to a definite street and curb grade, once established, and the city may not change it by order or motion without payment of any damages resulting to abutting owners; and such owners cannot recover damages for the destruction of sidewalks which did not conform to the official grade.</p>