City of Seattle Records

[990027]

Seattle, Washington, November 14th 1902.

TO THE CITY OF SEATTLE AND TO THE CITY TREASURER OF SAID CITY:-

Comes now August C. Anderson, and tenders and pays under protest the sum of Eight hundred and forty four dollars and ninety-five cents ($844.95), being the amount assessed against the following described property owned by him, by the City of Seattle, for the construction of concrete sidewalks on both sides of Eastlake Avenue from Howell Street to Mercer Street, under Ordinance No. 7928, creating Local Improvement District No. 578, to wit: Lots Ten (10), Eleven (11), Twelve (12), Fifteen (15), Sixteen (16), Seventeen (17) and Eighteen (18), Anderson's Supplemental Plat of Block Twenty (20), Pontius Addition, and Lots Eleven (11) and Twelve (12), Block Twenty-one (21), Pontius Addition to the City of Seattle. In paying said amount to the city, said August C. Anderson, protests that he is not liable to pay the same and should not be required to pay the same, for the reason that the City of Seattle and the contractor having charge of said work, has not done said work in accordance with the previsions of the contract therefor; and has failed to construct retaining walls in front of said property to retain the earth used in making the fill in front of said property upon which said sidewalk has been constructed, and has allowed the loose earth from said fill to slide over and project upon said property to a distance of several feet to the material injury and damage of said property, and has thrown upon said property a large quantity of refuse lumber and other debris from the street in front of said property, likewise to the material injury and damage of said property. That the damage aforesaid done to the said property is in excess of the amount assessed against said property for said

improvements, and in making said payment, said August C. Anderson does not admit his liability for said assessment or the liability of said property therefor; but protests that said assessment is illegal and an invalid assessment and the same is paid under protest in order to prevent the apparent lien therefor attaching to said property and to prevent a cloud upon the title to said property and to remove a cloud therefrom which cloud upon said title would be and has been created by said assessment. A.C. Anderson

NOV 14 1902 Protest of August C. Anderson against payment of certain local [-----] assessment Dist # 578