Barnes v. Belsaas

Citations

• 73 Wash. 205
• 131 P. 817
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1578

Syllabus

<p>Waters and Water Courses — Rights—Quieting Title. An action may be maintained to quiet title to water rights acquired by appropriation.</p> <p>Same — Riparian Rights — Priorities. Riparian rights of purchasers from the state subsequent to 1889, do not attach as of the date of the government survey in the year 1871.</p> <p>Same — Right to Waters — Prescription — Adverse Use — What Constitutes. A prescriptive right to the use of waters is not acquired by subsequent appropriators where they did not 'continuously for a period of ten years deprive the prior appropriators and their respective predecessors in interest of water to which they were entitled, but merely from time to time trespassed upon the superior rights of such prior appropriators.</p>