Sanderson v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 95 Wash. 582
• 164 P. 217
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 850

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Improvements— Assessments — Objections — Waiver—Collateral Attack. An assessment for a local improvement cannot be collaterally attacked for informalities or defects in the proceedings by owners who failed to object at the time the assessment roll was made up and confirmed and who paid their assessment; and it is not a jurisdictional objection that the city, before assessing property owners, should have credited ¡¡¡7,500 recovered in condemnation cases for the purpose of making the improvement, and which sum the city wrongfully diverted to other purposes; as the same goes to the amount of the assessment and the objections should have been made before the city council.</p> <p>Same — Improvements — Assessments — Validity. The fact that the raising of the level of streets is made necessary solely by a government project raising the level of a lake, does not show that it is not a local improvement or affect the jurisdiction of the city to make the improvement and assess benefits against abutting property.</p>