Olson v. King County

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that sovereign immunity and tort claims-filing provisions “have furnished some excuse for warping and torturing the results of tortious conduct into a constitutional taking” but that “immunity is now gone in this state”
• “[e]very trespass upon, or tortious damaging of real property does not become a constitutional taking or damaging simply because the trespasser or tort feasor is the state or one of its subdivisions, such as a county or a city”
• “The inundating of the properties of the plaintiffs with rocks, dirt, silt and debris . . . was neither contemplated by the plan of the work, nor was it a necessary incident in the building or maintenance of the road.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).