Egaas v. Columbia County

In 1913, the Circuit Court for Columbia County entered a judgment condemning a parcel of land 60 feet wide for a railroad right-of-way. Plaintiff is the contract purchaser of the servient property across which that extends. He brought suit to quiet title to the right-of-way. The trial court ruled in his favor, and defendant county appeals.

The railroad owned the right-of-way from 1913 until it was purchased by a timber company, which quitclaimed its interest to defendant for one dollar in 1939. The servient property has been conveyed several times since then. From 1941, all the conveyances…