Noyes v. Douglas

Citations

• 39 Wash. 314
• 81 P. 724
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 863

Syllabus

<p>Adverse Possession—Boundaries—Mistake—Claim oe Right. The possession of land, inclosed through a mistake as to the location of the boundary line, is shown not to have been adverse or under claim of right, where the owner of city lots, after eight years possession, had the lines surveyed before building and took possession of, improved and claimed his own lots as located by such survey.</p> <p>Same—Abandonment of Possession. An abandonment of possession is shown, where the owner of city lots, after a survey of the boundaries, removed all improvements from a strip of the adjoining lots that he had inclosed by mistake, and took possession of his own lots according to the survey and, for two years before the statute had run, the strip in question remained uninclosed and with improvements too insignificant to challenge attention to an adverse claim.</p>