Sunray DX Oil Co. v. John E. Mahaffey & Associates, Inc.

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

Appellee, John E. Mahaffey and Associates, Inc., hereafter called Mahaffey, instituted suit in the Washington Chancery Court on June 25, 1969, against Sunray Oil Company DX Division, one of the appellants herein, and by such complaint and subsequent amendments filed, asserted that Maurice A. Finney and wife, Louise McDonald Finney, were the owners of real estate west of appellees’ property, and that appellant, Sunray, had leased the Finney and Harper lands. It was alleged that the lessee was encroaching upon the Mahaffey property by some 8.3 feet on the south…