Metropolitan Park District v. State

85 Wn.2d 821 (1975)

539 P.2d 854

METROPOLITAN PARK DISTRICT OF TACOMA, Respondent,

v.

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON et al, Appellants.

No. 43481.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

September 18, 1975.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and Theodore O. Torve, Assistant, for appellants.

Herbert Gelman and Gelman & Couture, for respondent.

HUNTER, J.

This case involves the right of the State of Washington, appellant herein, to cancel a use deed granted to the Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma, respondent (hereinafter referred to as the District), for the use of certain tidelands.

In 1916, the Tacoma Yacht…