SEATTLE v. P.B. INVESTMENT

No. 2655-1.

11 Wn. App. 653 (1974)

524 P.2d 419

THE CITY OF SEATTLE, Respondent, v. P.B. INVESTMENT COMPANY, INC., Appellant.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One.

July 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guttormsen, Scholfield & Stafford and Harvey S. Poll, for appellant.

John P. Harris, Corporation Counsel, and Jorgen G. Bader, Assistant, for respondent.


SWANSON, C.J.

Does a first-class city have the authority to settle a private claim against it by granting the claimant the right to use a portion of a public street for a certain length of time? Assuming arguendo that such an authority does exist, may the city subsequently summarily order the private use of the street to cease when such use conflicts with the public need to make full use of the street notwithstanding the fact that the term of private use originally...

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