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KING COUNTY v. WALSH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

No. 83787-7-I.

532 P.3d 182 (2023)

KING COUNTY, Respondent, v. WALSH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY II, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company; and Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America, a foreign insurance corporation, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

Filed July 3, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Wendell Masters , Shelby R Frost Lemmel , Masters Law Group PLLC, 321 High School Road Ne., D3-#362, Bainbridge Island, WA, 98110-2648, John P. Ahlers , Masaki J. Yamada , Lawrence Stephen Glosser , Ahlers Cressman & Sleight, PLLC, 1325 4th Avenue, Suite 1850, Seattle, WA, 98101, Robert L. Christie , Megan Maria Coluccio , Christie Law Group PLLC, 2100 Westlake Ave N. Ste. 206, Seattle, WA, 98109-5802, for Appellant.

John Hitchcock Parnass , Kai Andrew Smith , Zachary Tomlinson , Paul J. Lawrence , Sarah Stewart Washburn , Pacifica Law Group LLP, 1191 2nd Ave. Ste. 2000, Seattle, WA, 98101-3404, for Respondents.

Garth A. Schlemlein , Bryan Dale Caditz , Brian Christopher Nadler , Schlemlein Fick & Franklin, PLLC, 66 S. Hanford St. Ste. 300, Seattle, WA, 98134-1867, for Amici Curiae Assoc. General Contractors of Washington, National Utility Contractors Assoc. of Washington.

Bruce R Gilbert , GLB, PC, 7455 Sw. Bridgeport Rd. Ste. 235, Tigard, OR, 97224-7287, Christopher Wright , Carney Badley Spellman, 701 5th Ave. Ste. 3600, Seattle, WA, 98104-7010, Sarah Eversole Wilson Smith, Cochran Dickerson, 1000 Second Avenue, Suite 2050, Seattle, WA, 98104-3629, Richard A. Schwartz , Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C., 700 Milam Street, Suite 2700, Houstont, TX, 77002-2806, for Other Parties.

PUBLISHED OPINION

¶1 This appeal arises out of a public works contract that required Walsh Construction Company II to construct and install a conveyance pipeline for King County. After the pipeline broke, the County paid Walsh to repair it and then sued Walsh for those costs. Relevant here, the trial court dismissed with...

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