Alexander v. Bennett
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King bounty, Smith, J., entered August 18, 1915, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action of ejectment, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBausman, J.
Ejectment based upon adverse possession during more than the statutory ten years against defendant and his grantors, who present perfect legal title with payment of taxes.
Only a small portion of defendants’ land, much less than an acre, is in question, a small appendix from the main body along a bay in front of plaintiff’s farm, separating that farm from the water and joined with the rest of defendants’ land by a mere neck. Plaintiff showed that, when she and her husband bought their farm more than twenty-five years ago from its then owner, the latter spoke of this fringe as part of it and…
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