Ottolengui ex rel. Degginger v. City of Seattle
Citations
- 59 Wash. 37
- 109 P. 206
- 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1130
Syllabus
<p>Municipal Corporations — Streets—Private Ways — Duty to Repair — Contributory Negligence. The driver of an automobile is guilty of contributory negligence in attempting to travel a road, and the road was not a street which the city was bound to repair, where it appears that the way was constructed over private lands by real estate agents who had put up travel signs for their own purposes, that it was five miles from the business portion of the city, in a wild, rough country, and plainly in very bad condition, and that the city had not opened or authorized the opening of the street.</p>
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- “no structure could be erected, placed or permitted to remain on any lot other than one single family residential structure”
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