Kobza v. Tripp

—A quiet title action is an equitable action. It allows a party in peaceable possession of real property to compel others who assert a hostile right to assert that right and submit it to judicial determination. Because it is an equitable action, damages are not ordinarily allowed in a quiet title action. 17 William B. Stoebuck, Washington Practice: Real Estate: Property Law § 10.11, at 630 (1995). Here, John Kobza, Jay Kobza, and Mary Fish (the Kobzas) sued to quiet title to an easement because Larry and Aina Tripp1 claimed that the easement had reverted by abandonment and adverse possession.…