High Court OKs Incorporation

OLYMPIA, Nov. 21. -- (AP) -- The incorporation of the King County community of Black Diamond into a city of the fourth class was legal even though the town contains more than one square mile of territory, the State Supreme Court ruled today.

Three Black Diamond property owners had urged the court to dissolve the city on thegrounds that it was not incorporated in compliance with the law.

JOHN THOMPSON, Leonard Kuzaro and Mrs. John Banchero argued that thecity contained 2-1/2 square miles in spite of the law limiting fourth class cities to nomore than one square mile and that they owned more than 20 acres of land which wasincluded in the city without their consent.

But the high court noted that the suit was not filed until three years after the city wasincorporated.