TWO CASES IN A.M. ONLY

Case No. 1 - 87174-4	COUNSEL
Columbia Community Bank      v. Newman Park, LLC	Thomas Peterson/Adam Asher Ben Shafton
SYNOPSIS: Two banks took the same property as collateral for loans, but the person who gave the property as collateral to the second bank didn't have legal authority to do so.  Does the second bank still have a claim to the property given that it had paid off a loan from the first bank?

Case No. 2 - 86293-1	COUNSEL
Cedar River Water and Sewer District, et al.      v. King County, et al. City Of Algona, et al.	David Jurca William Blakney/Verna Bromley Arthur Harrigan, Jr./Timothy Leyh Randall Thomsen/Katherine See Kennedy Andrew Maron/Leslie Clark Shelley Kerslake/Christopher Bacha/Bob Sterbank Daniel Heid/Wayne Tanaka Cheryl Zakrzewski/Scott Missall Joseph Lell/Thomas Brubaker William Evans/Michael Ruark Kathleen Knight/Albert Abuan/James Haney Lawrence Warren/Gregory Narver John Milne/Mark Leen/Rod Kaseguma/Eric Frimodt Brian Lawler/Joseph Bennett Kinnon Williams/Allen Hendricks Robert Seder/Hillary Evans James Schwartz
SYNOPSIS: Two King County sewage utility districts contend that King County has improperly spent sewage treatment fees on unrelated costs, mostly connected to the construction of the Brightwater Sewage Treatment Plant. A trial court rejected most of their claims. This court must decide whether the trial court was right.

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