State v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Main, J., entered July 14, 1909, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, after a trial on the merits.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
This is a suit to quiet title, prosecuted by the attorney general in behalf of the state against a large number of defendants. A decree was rendered in favor of the state. The defendants City of Seattle, Lippy, and Crawford have appealed.
The land involved in this appeal consists of a strip of land 34 feet wide extending from Seneca to Union Streets, and lying immediately on the west of the alley between 5th and 6th avenues, in the city of Seattle. The state claims title to the land under a deed granting to the territory of Washington a ten-acre tract of land as a site for the territorial…
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