EDMONDS SCH. DIST. v. CITY OF MOUNTLAKE TERRACE

No. 40120.

77 Wn.2d 609 (1970)

465 P.2d 177

EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 15, Appellant, v. THE CITY OF MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

February 11, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams, Thomson & Cole, by Curtis P. Thomson, for appellant.

Jordan, Adair, Kasperson & Hennessey, by William F. Hennessey, for respondent.

The Attorney General and Thomas C. McKinnon, Assistant, amici curiae.


HALE, J.

A kind of sibling rivalry in governmental affairs brings the Edmonds School District and the City of Mountlake Terrace here on a declaratory judgment suit. The school district's claim of sovereign immunity from the city's building code is met by the city's equally vehement claim of sovereign authority to enforce the code. Failing to obtain in the superior court a declaratory judgment that it need not comply with...

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