Northlake Marine Works, Inc. v. City of Seattle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding transfer of municipal property where city conveyed abandoned right-of-way to private party in exchange for perpetual easement for construction of a trail
• city did not violate the prohibition against gifts of public property when it conveyed an abandoned railroad right-of-way to private developers in exchange for development of public trail
• “This [centerline] presumption is rebuttable, and if metes and bounds provisions in the deed describe property that extends up to but does not include the right of way, the presumption is rebutted.”
• “This [centerline] presumption is rebuttable, and if metes and bounds provisions in the deed describe property that extends up to but does not include the right of way, the presumption is rebutted.”
• “to its successors and assigns forever for railway purposes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).