Lara v. Peterson

Citations

• 56 Wash. 70
• 105 P. 160
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 849

Syllabus

<p>Taxation — Decree and Deed — Definiteness—Description—Liberal Construction. A description in a tax foreclosure and deed of a lot “less west two feet,” where the boundary lines varied about twelve degrees from due north and south, is a sufficiently definite description of the lot, less two feet cut off by a north and south line, measured from the most westerly point of the lot, under a liberal construction of the provision of Laws 1899, p. 301, requiring the sale of land for taxes to he made by selling a portion off the east side of the tract, determined by “a line drawn due north and south far enough west of the eastern point of the tract to make the requisite quantity.”</p>