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[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 Seat-
tle, for the construction of concrete sidewalks on both sides
of Eastlake Avenue from Howell Street to Mercer Street, under Or-
dinance 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 pro-
perty to retain the earth used in making the fill in front of said
property upon which said sidewalk has been constructed, and has al-
lowed 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 pro-
perty 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