Cook v. Reuter

Citations

• 115 Wash. 384
• 197 P. 53
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 744

Syllabus

<p>Counties—Boundaries—Evidence—Assumption oe Jurisdiction— Acquiescence. In an action to set aside a sheriffs sale and deed pursuant thereto, as made upon lands outside the county, the burden of proof upon plaintiffs to establish that the land, an island in the Columbia river, lay in another county, was not met where there was no proof as to the volume of water on different sides of the island at the ordinary stage of water, and the evidence showed that for ten years, ever since the filing of the United States patent to the land, jurisdiction had been exercised by the county wherein the sheriff’s sale was had, without any contrary assertion of authority by the other contiguous county.</p>