Samish Boom Co. v. Callvert

Citations

• 27 Wash. 611
• 68 P. 367
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 430

Syllabus

<p>TIDE LANDS-IMPROVEMENTS BY BOOM COMPANIES-APPRAISEMENT APPROPRIATION OF STATE LANDS.</p> <p>Under Laws 1889-90, p. 470, and Laws 1895, p. 128, authorizing the formation of hoom companies and providing that they shall have power to acquire and hold, huy, lease, or purchase real property necessary for carrying on their business, and if the owners of land sought to he appropriated for such purposes will not agree as to the amount of compensation to he paid for the land, then the same may he determined under the statutes relating to eminent domain, there is no express or implied authorization to use the tide lands of the state except hy purchase or lease, inasmuch as the law in force authorized the acquisition of tide lands of the state at a fixed price or for the leasing of such lands under certain conditions; consequently the filing of a map of location hy a hoom company did not amount to an appropriation of the state’s tide lands, nor entitle it to compensation for improvements placed thereon subsequent to January 1, 1891.</p>