Sivyer & Sons Co. v. City of Spokane

Citations

• 77 Wash. 282
• 137 P. 808
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 889

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Improvements — Assessments — Districts — Property Included — “Platted Property” — Statutes — Construction. Under 3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 7892-13, providing that the assessment district shall include all property between the términi of said improvement abutting upon, adjacent, vicinal or proximate to the street improved, to a distance back to' the center line of the block, and in case the property is unplatted, the distance back shall be the same as that'included in the assessment of the platted lands immediately adjacent thereto, the term “block” was intended to refer to a square included by four streets as located by the prevailing scheme of streets in the locality; and “platted” property refers to that included by the regularly placed intersecting streets where the lands are capable of being platted; and “unplatted” lands refers to lands not so included; hence, where the next street to the north had been dedicated through1 only part of the abutting lands, the other portion of such lands is “unplatted,” if capable thereof, and cannot be assessed back further than the immediately adjoining platted property, which extended back only half way to the next street.</p>