Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Adams County

Citations

• 78 Wash. 53
• 138 P. 307
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 979

Syllabus

<p>Agriculture — Noxious Weeds — Cost — Assessment — Remedies. Construing together all of the provisions of the act relating to cutting noxious weeds (Rem. & Bal. Code, § 3032 et seq.), the act contemplates that the cost of cutting weeds to the center of the highway shall be taxed to the abutting land, and § 3039, providing that failure to cut weeds on the highway shall constitute a misdemeanor merely furnishes a cumulative remedy.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Noxious Weeds — Cost — Assessment on Land — Taking Property Without Compensation — Due Process oe Law. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 3032 et seq., providing that the owners of abutting lands shall cut noxious weeds in the road to the center of the highway, and on default, the work shall be done by the county and the cost assessed as a tax upon the land, is valid as a reasonable exercise of the police power; and is not a taking of private property without just compensation or without due process of law.</p>