Seattle Land & Improvement Co. v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 37 Wash. 274
• 79 P. 780
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 719

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Coepobations — Pabks—Divebsion to Economical Use — Lands Heed in Fee and Paid eoe Fbom Geneeal Fund— Abutting Ownebs. A city of the first class, being authorized to acquire lands by purchase or otherwise and to dispose of the same, and to establish, regulate, control or vacate parks, and having acquired lands in fee for the purpose of a public park by the right of eminent domain, may thereafter divert the same to an economic use by the erection thereon of a city building, where the lands appropriated were paid for by the city out of its general fund, as distinguished from a restricted donation or conveyance for park purposes, or from a purchase paid for by local assessments levied upon the property specially benefited thereby; and abutting owners can not object to such diversion.</p>