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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