Marken v. Jacobs

Citations

• 86 Wash. 504
• 150 P. 1161

Syllabus

<p>Cancellation of Instruments — Evidence—Sufficiency. The presumption that a deed of lands, sold for taxes, from the tax title grantee to the former owner’s son-in-law, evidences the true state of the title, subject to an admitted right of use by the father-in-law and his wife, is not overcome by clear, cogent and convincing evidence, where it appears that the land was paid for by money borrowed upon a joint note secured on the personal property of each, that the son-in-law desired to preserve a home for the old people, who continued to live on the land and had the use of the same in consideration of the payment of the taxes, the son-in-law meanwhile making various improvements by building fences and buildings, without objection by the old people.</p>