Burmeister v. Howard

Opinion by

Wyche, Associate Justice.

Tbe right to a strip of land, fronting seven feet on Third street, and extending back sixty feet, and being a part of lot 2 in block 13, on the plat of the town of Olympia, was the matter in controversy in the Oourt below. Title in both parties is derived through Edmund Sylvester, who is the patentee of the land, and who laid off and platted that portion of the town of Olympia embracing the land in dispute.

The plaintiffs in the Oourt below instituted suit to recover the possession of this strip of land, and, in support of their' right, presented to the Oourt…