State ex rel. Cation v. Superior Court

Citations

• 118 Wash. 217
• 203 P. 375
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 637

Syllabus

<p>Eminent Domain (116) — Proceedings—Notice—Proof of Service —Affidavits—Sufficiency. Rem. Code, § 5633, providing notice of proceedings to condemn land to be posted, in case of absentee owners, “at a conspicuous place on the lands,” is shown to be strictly complied with by an affidavit of posting “at a conspicuous place on the lands to be affected by said road.”</p> <p>Evidence (142) — Parol Evidence to Vary Writings — Public Records. In condemnation proceedings to establish a public highway, where there are in evidence two purported orders of the county commissioners for the establishment of the road, oral evidence is admissible to show that one of them had not been adopted by the board nor recorded in their minutes, and that the other order had been approved and signed by the commissioners and set out in the journal of their proceedings.</p>