Gardner v. Port Blakely Mill Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scott, J.

— This action was brought to quiet title to a quarter section of land in Kitsap county, which, on the *212th day of July, 1882, was government land. On said date one William Cadwell made entry thereof under an act of congress entitled ‘ ‘An act for the sale of timber lands in the states of California, Oregon, Nevada, and in Washington Territory, ” approved June 3,1878 (20 U. S. St. at Large, p. 89). At this time said Cadwell was the husband of the appellant Genevieve Gardner, and they were living together in the Territory of Washington, near the…