PETERSON v. KING COUNTY

No. 32876.

45 Wn.2d 860 (1954)

278 P.2d 774

LAMBERT S. PETERSON et al., Respondent, v. KING COUNTY, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

December 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles O. Carroll and Paul C. Gibbs, for appellant.

Guttormsen, Scholfield, Willits & Ager, for respondents.


WEAVER, J.

Defendant, King county, appeals from a judgment entered against it after verdict of a jury.

Interrogatories submitted to the jury disclose that an allowance was made (a) for "the reasonable cost of repairing the damage to plaintiffs' property" as the result of an earth slide; and (b) for "the depreciation in the market value of plaintiffs' property."

Plaintiffs' property is at the bottom of a steep slope. In 1942, the county built a road...

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