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| | 33 Wn.2d 76, THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, on the Relation of King County, Plaintiff, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR KING COUNTY, ... |
 | | The powers of a county can be exercised only by its board of county commissioners or by agents or officers acting under its authority or under authority of law; and such boards have only such powers as have been granted to them, expressly or by necessary implication, by the constitution and statutes of the state. |
 | | Pursuant to the adoption of the resolution, the relator, King county, on December 14, 1948, filed in the superior court a petition seeking adjudication of such public use and the determination by a jury of the amount of damages and compensation to be awarded to the landowners, named as respondents, affected by such proceedings. |
 | | A hearing was had before the court, at the conclusion of which the court sustained the demurrers, on the grounds that the court had no jurisdiction of the subject matter of the action and that the relator had no legal capacity to sue. |
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