State ex rel. Ford v. Superior Court

Citations

• 67 Wash. 10
• 120 P. 514
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1114

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Control of Streets — Exclusive Franchise — Street Railways. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 9080, providing that a city may grant authority for the construction of electric railways upon, over, along and across any public street and prescribe the grade or elevation at which the same shall be maintained, authorizes the city, by clear and unmistakable language, to grant a franchise giving a street railway company the right to build a track on a trestle in a portion of the street, excluding the public therefrom, upon condemnation of the abutter’s easements of access, light, and air, under Id., § 9081.</p>