Hartman v. Nordquist

Rees, J.:

This is a quiet title action. Plaintiffs appeal from an adverse summary judgment. We affirm.

The subject of this litigation is a quarter section of Sumner County land Florence Sparr, a resident of the State of Washington, conveyed, subject to a reserved life estate, to E. M. E. Eggers by a deed dated May 11,1960, and recorded in Sumner County on February 26, 1964. Sparr died intestate January 1, 1967.

Acquisition of the quarter section became an interest of Francis Hartman in 1975. On his behalf, Charles E. Watson, Hartman’s lawyer, tried to locate Eggers purportedly to discuss the…