McFadden v. Allen-Nelson Mill Co.

This action was originally instituted against Alien-Nelson Mill Co., a corporation, which answered under the name of Bratnober Company, a corporation, to which name the former corporation had been changed. The action is to quiet title to a tract of forty acres of land in King county, Washington, and the standing timber thereon.

On July 24, 1906, Julius Rubow, the then owner of the land, made a contract with Alien-Nelson Mill Company, designated a “timber contract,” conveying to the mill company the timber and the right to take it off within a period of five years, “without let or hindrance.”

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