Maas v. Perkins

This is an action to recover damages and for an injunction because of defendants’ alleged trespass and continuing nuisance in permitting oil, sludge, and waste to drain from their properties onto the properties of plaintiffs.

In 1936, while plaintiffs Henry and Irene Maas were husband and wife, they acquired a tract of land about a mile north of the city of Vancouver, in Clark county, Washington. This tract had a frontage of two hundred thirty-one feet on the west side of the Pacific highway. Plaintiffs were divorced in 1947, at which time Henry quitclaimed to Irene the southerly one hundred…