Turner Investment Co. v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 70 Wash. 201
• 126 P. 426
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1030

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Improvements — Assessments — Contracts With Owner — Ultra Vires. A city cannot contract with, part of the property owners in a contemplated improvement district to form the district and eliminate their property from assessment in consideration of their doing the necessary grading of certain streets, accepting a nominal sum as damages for their property taken or damaged by street extensions and changes of grade in the district; such contract being ultra vires and void.</p>