RCW 8.20.170
Suit for compensation by owner equivalent to condemnation.
Nothing in RCW 8.20.150 through 8.20.170 shall prevent the owner of any such property suing for and recovering compensation for such property without instituting suit or proceedings to oust such corporation therefrom, and upon payment of the amount awarded such owner title to the property shall vest in such corporation as effectually as if acquired by proceedings in condemnation.
[ 1927 c 219 § 3; RRS § 921-3.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 8.20 - Eminent Domain by Corporations.
8.20.005 - Condemnation final actions—Notice requirements.
8.20.010 - Petition for appropriation—Contents.
8.20.020 - Notice—Contents—Service—Publication.
8.20.060 - Adjournment of proceedings—Further notice.
8.20.070 - Adjudication of public use or private way of necessity.
8.20.080 - Trial, how conducted.
8.20.090 - Judgment—Decree of appropriation—Recording.
8.20.100 - Payment of damages—Effect—Appellate review.
8.20.110 - Claimants, payment of—Conflicting claims.
8.20.130 - Prosecution of work pending appeal—Bond.
8.20.140 - Appropriation of railway right-of-way through canyon, pass, or defile.
8.20.150 - Prior entry with consent—Condemnation avoids ouster.
8.20.160 - Three-year occupancy—Condemnation avoids ouster.
8.20.170 - Suit for compensation by owner equivalent to condemnation.