Yesler v. Washington Harbor Line Commissioners
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT Off THE STATE Off WASHINGTON. On October 28, 1890, the affidavit of J. D. Lowman, the attorney in fact of H. L. Tester, was filed in the Superior Court of King County, State of Washington, stating: . “That said H. L. Tester has lived in the city,of Seattle upwards of thirty years; that he is now and has been for thirty years last past the owner of the following described property, to wit, the property commonly known as Tesler’s wharf and dock and…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT Off THE STATE Off WASHINGTON. On October 28, 1890, the affidavit of J. D. Lowman, the attorney in fact of H. L. Tester, was filed in the Superior Court of King County, State of Washington, stating: . “That said H. L. Tester has lived in the city,of Seattle upwards of thirty years; that he is now and has been for thirty years last past the owner of the following described property, to wit, the property commonly known as Tesler’s wharf and dock and the upland abutting on the shore upon which said wharf and dock were constructed; that said property abuts upon, the…
1Opinion of the Court
He. Chief Justice Fuller,
after stating the case, delivered . the opinion of the court.
The averment in relator’s petition is that “ he is now and has been for thirty years last past the owner of the following-described property, to wit, the property commonly known as Yesler’s wharf and dock and.the upland abutting on the shore upon which said wharf and dock were constructed.” It is said in argument that he is an original patentee of the United States, under the “ Donation Act ”. of September 27, 1850, (9 Stat; 496, c. 76,) of a tract of about one hundred and sixty acres of land”; entered by…
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