NARROWS REALTY CO., INC. v. State

The state of Washington, defendant below, and a group of interveners appealed from a judgment quieting respondent’s title to a strip of land in Pierce county between the meander line and the line of ordinary high tide.

On March 16, 1883, Charles C. Miller, pursuant to the Timber and Stone act (20 Stat. 89), made proof of all facts necessary for a patent to the three government lots 2 in question bordering on the east shore of the Narrows on Puget sound, an arm of the sea. Miller paid the full purchase price and received, in return, the official receipt of the receiver of the United States land…