State v. Stockdale

The question involved in this appeal is whether the state of Washington acquired a prescriptive title, by adverse possession, to a tract of land in Kittitas county, approximating ten acres in area, being the part of the south half of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 19, township 17, north range 23, E. W. M., located at the summit of a ridge overlooking the Columbia river.

In 1931, Prof. George F. Beck, instructor at Central Washington College of Education, discovered the petrified trees later to be known as Gingko Forest. The state park committee acquired from Smithson…