Hurley v. Olympia Oyster Co.

Citations

• 105 Wash. 244
• 177 P. 732

Syllabus

<p>Public Lands (101)—Fish (3)—Oyster Lands—Disposal by State — Statutes. The “Callow” act, Rem. Code, §§ 6806, 6807, providing for the sale of natural or artificial oyster beds to persons cultivating oysters thereon, authorizes the sale of oyster beds whether planted upon tide lands or upon lands below tide lands; in view of Rem. Code, § 6641, which defines tide lands as all lands over which the tide ebbs and flows from the line of ordinary high tide to the line of extreme low tide “excepting oyster reserves”; the intent of which is to except oyster lands from the definition of tide lands, whether upon tide lands or not.</p>