Wickert v. Thompson

Defendants appeal from a judgment of quiet title based upon adverse possession by plaintiff.

Plaintiff owned a 10-acre tract,bordered on the west by Gardner Road. In 1956, he sold a parcel adjoining Gardner Road. Based upon a survey and immediately after the sale, plaintiff put in a barbed-wire fence which was maintained in place as the property line until 1978. Plaintiff used the property up to the fence line to run cattle and later grow hay. In 1965, Skagit County established the true line of Gardner Road to be 24 feet east of where the original survey had placed it. The county vacated the…