Ouellette v. Jim

Citations

• 60 Wash. 562
• 111 P. 790
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1098

Syllabus

<p>Boundaries — Lost Corners — Evidence to Establish — Sufficiency —Surveys—Field Notes. A survey to locate a lost corner on the west meander line of a section, by reference to the witness trees called for in the field notes, from which point other comers, noted in the field notes as marked by a pile of stones, are located on the meander line approximately at high tide mark, takes precedence over and overcomes a survey of the south line of the section by courses and distances, whereby the west meander line of the section is established further west, and twenty-five rods below ordinary high tide in 18 feet of water at high tide, where a meander line could not have been run.</p>