Rettire v. City of North Yakima

Citations

• 75 Wash. 143
• 134 P. 699
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1688

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Streets—Grade—Change of Grade — ■ Liability. The fixing of the grade of a roadway does not control, with any exactness, the grade of the sidewalk, other than that it shall be constructed with reasonable reference to the established grade of the roadway, in order to avoid liability by the city as for a change of grade in subsequently fixing the grade of the sidewalk; and it is not unreasonable to establish the grade of a sidewalk in a residential section ten inches higher than the previously established grade of the roadway, in the absence of any showing of probable injury to abutting property (Gose and Chadwick, JJ., dissenting).</p>