State Ex Rel. Hamilton v. Superior Court

By her deed of September 21, 1938, Mary Downing conveyed to the state of Washington a right of way for highway purposes across her land in Cowlitz county, and she received the stipulated consideration of six hundred dollars for that conveyance.

In March, 1939, Mrs. Downing instituted an action in the superior court for Cowlitz county against the state of Washington to obtain a decree canceling the above-described deed, on the ground that she was induced by the fraudulent representations of an official of the state highway department to execute that in strument. She further prayed that she be…