In Re Kane

Appellant's assignor, Columbia Timber Products Company, a corporation, formerly held a ten-year lease of certain state shore lands of the first class, issued by the state land commissioner on October 30, 1923, for booming purposes. That corporation failed to file its annual license fee from and after July 1, 1923, until July 1, 1929, on which date it was stricken from the record and dissolved by the secretary of state. At the expiration of the 1923 boom lease and as assignee of that lease, appellant applied for a re-lease of the property described in the former boom lease.

Respondent's…