Booten v. Peterson

This appeal is from a judgment entered in an action of the type authorized by the Legislative Assembly of Washington Territory in 1886 (Laws of 1886, p. 104) and currently codified as Rem. Rev. Stat., §§ 947, 948, and 949 [P.P.C. §§ 13-1, -3, -5].

Section 947 provides, in substance, that whenever the boundaries between lands of two or more adjoining proprietors have been lost or, by time, accident, or any other cause, have become obscure or uncertain, and the adjoining proprietors cannot agree to establish the same, one or more of them may bring an action in equity in the superior court of the…