In re Percival Application No. 92

Citations

• 91 Wash. 470

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Streets—Extension Over Tide Lands. A city abandons and loses its right to extend a street over tide lands to the harbor lines, as authorized by Const., art. 15, § 3, where it acquiesced in a state lease to, and occupancy by, one maintaining a public dock and wharf for nearly twenty years, and for ten years after passing ordinances extending its streets, did not attempt to physically occupy or improve the portion of the street leased by the state, or take any steps to call the state’s attention to its claim to the street; in view of §§ 1 and 2 of the same article, authorizing the state to make a lease of such lands.</p>