Studebaker v. Beek
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Cowlitz county, Darch, J., entered December 12, 1913, upon findings in favor of the defendants, in an action to quiet title, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
This is an action to quiet title in the plaintiffs to a strip of land formerly occupied as a railroad right of way. The evidence was chiefly documentary, consisting of instruments the parts of which, hereinafter chronologically set out, constitute the essential facts.(a) On December 12, 1870, John Beek and Jane Beek, the then owners of a donation land claim where the town of Castle B.ock, in Cowlitz county, is now located, conveyed to *262the Northern Pacific Railroad Company an easement for a right of way, described as follows:
“The right-of-way for the construction of a railroad and telegraph…
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