Cheney v. King County

Citations

• 72 Wash. 490
• 130 P. 893
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1497

Syllabus

<p>Highways — Vacation — By Abandonment — Opening foe Public Use — What Constitutes. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 5673, providing that if any county road remains unopened for public travel for five years after the authority for opening the same is granted, it shall become vacated, applies to a dedicated street in the plat of an unincorporated town under the supervision and control of the county commissioners; and such a street is not “opened for public travel” by the fact that at the time the land was platted a footpath followed the general course of the platted way and was used for some time after the making and dedication of the plat until it was closed up.</p>