BROWER v. WELLS

No. 50120-3.

103 Wn.2d 96 (1984)

690 P.2d 1144

DOROTHY R. BROWER, Respondent, v. CLIFFORD WELLS, ET AL, Appellants, THE CITY OF YAKIMA, Respondent. TOM R. HUGHES, Respondent, v. CLIFFORD WELLS, ET AL, Appellants, THE CITY OF YAKIMA, ET AL, Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

November 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Maurice Cooper, Raymond L. Lebsack, and Lawrence L. Anderson, for appellants.

Donald J. Kinney of Evergreen Legal Services and Paulette L. Kohman, for respondent Brower.

Joel E. Smith and J. Tappan Menard (of Gavin, Robinson, Kendrick, Redman & Mays, Inc., P.S.), for respondent City of Yakima.

Rocky L. Jackson, for respondent Hughes.

Wilson & Mikesell, by G.L. Mikesell, for respondent Yakima Federal Savings.


DORE, J.

We hold that the City of Yakima, in foreclosing on real property for failure to pay irrigation assessment liens, must conduct such sale with constitutional due process, which entails giving notice of such foreclosure actions to the property owners prior to the sheriff's sale. The City of Yakima foreclosed on properties owned by respondents Dorothy R. Brower and Tom R. Hughes for their failure to pay irrigation assessment liens. Notice was by publication pursuant...

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