Mottman v. City of Olympia

Citations

• 45 Wash. 361
• 88 P. 579
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 470

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Streets—Vacation—Rights of Adjacent Owners. The owner of business property in a city cannot object to the vacation of a street upon which his property does not abut, where the only practical effect it would have upon his egress or ingress would be the deflection one block east or west of the travel coming from the residence district.,</p> <p>Same — Review by Courts. The vacation of a city street is a legislative function, delegated to the city by Laws 1901, ch. 84, and cannot be reviewed by the courts in the absence of collusion or fraud.</p> <p>Same. The fact that the vacation of a street was to 'give the title thereto to the state, which owned the abutting .property, does not show collusion or fraud that would defeat the vacation.</p>