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· 11/22/1916

Bassett v. City of Spokane

Citations

  • 93 Wash. 413
  • 161 P. 65
  • 1916 Wash. LEXIS 1215

Syllabus

<p>Adverse Possession — Payment op Taxes — Color op Title — Statutes. Tbe payment of taxes in good faith, by one claiming under a warranty deed from the owners in 1889, for seven consecutive years after title had passed by tax deed in 1903 to another, is a payment by a person having “color of title, made in good faith” within Rem. 1915 Code, § 789, providing that such payment shall vest title in vacant and unoccupied land to the extent and according to the purport of the paper title.</p>

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  • involving a suit against a state land agent for false imprisonment and trespass after the state land agent arrested the plaintiff and took his property

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