Oravetz v. Cruson

Citations

• 124 Wash. 384
• 214 P. 828
• 1923 Wash. LEXIS 911

Syllabus

<p>Frauds, Statute cx (35) — Contracts—Sale ox Real Property— Memorandum — Description ox Lands. Negotiations for the purchase of land, carried on by correspondence which nowhere described the property, are insufficient to establish a contract enforcible under the statute of frauds.</p> <p>Licenses (18) — Logs and Logging (1, 2) — Cutting Timber-Rights ox Parol Licensee. A parol license to cut timber upon land is not revoked by the grantor’s execution of a deed, until the title is vested by delivery of the deed, where the grantee had no binding contract to purchase the property; and the licensee is not liable for cutting timber between the date of execution and the date of delivery of the deed.</p> <p>Same. The delivery of the deed of property operates to revoke the grantor’s prior parol license to cut wood thereon.</p> <p>Same. One having a parol license to cut timber, has a reasonable time after revocation of the license within which to cut up and remove trees already felled.</p>