Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Devine

Citations

• 53 Wash. 241
• 101 P. 841
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1305

Syllabus

<p>Adverse Possession- — Hostile Character — Permissive Use — Judgment — Vacating Default — Ejectment. Occupancy of a $12 shack for nearly twenty years on a railroad company’s premises by an old employee, who had no deed and had paid no taxes, appears to have been merely permissive as a squatter; and in ejectment it is not an abuse of discretion to refuse to vacate a default judgment on such a showing.</p>