Metropolitan Building Co. v. Fitzgerald
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Griffiths, J., entered January 26, 1922, in favor of the plaintiff, in an action to quiet title, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMackintosh, J.
-Respondent desires to have its title quieted to a fifty-foot strip of land which it claims hy adverse possession.
The appellants have the record title to this strip through a quitclaim deed made to them in 1890, and have ever since that date paid the taxes upon the property. Appellants’ property is uncleared and unoccupied and has always been so. The predecessors of the respondent, from the time of the quitclaim deed in 1890 to the appellants, have owned the property ad*515joining the fifty-foot strip, and have conveyed it hy deeds, none of which included the strip. However, all of them have…
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