Neely v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 109 Wash. 266
• 186 P. 880
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 902

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (566, 567)-—Claims—Sufficiency—Vari-ance. Under a claim against a city for overflowing certain described tracts of land, damages to other lands cannot be recovered, in view of the city charter requiring all claims to contain the items of damages and to accurately describe the injury, as a prerequisite to action.</p> <p>Same. Under a claim against a city for overflowing all of plaintiffs’ lands, recovery may be had for damages to only part.</p> <p>Waters and Water Courses (72)—Action for Flowage—Act of God—Evidence—Sufficiency. Where floods are not unprecedented, and higher floods had occurred in prior years, they are not within the rule of nonliability as acts of God.</p>