Goetter v. Moore

Citations

• 53 Wash. 5
• 101 P. 365
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1261

Syllabus

<p>Adverse Possession — Payment of Taxes — Color of Title— Sheriff’s Certificate of Sale. A sheriff’s certificate of sale upon, mortgage foreclosure, delivered to the purchaser, is color of title, and with payment of taxes for seven years, in good faith, constitutes a title by .adverse possession of vacant and unoccupied lands, as against the foreclosure defendants, and also their wives who were not made parties to the foreclosure, where they all had acquiesced in the decree, and had not been in possession, or paid any taxes, or made any claim to the land, for twelve years.</p>