Pease v. Buckley

Citations

• 37 Wash. 182
• 79 P. 627
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 696

Syllabus

<p>Quieting Title — Pleadings—Answer—Former Action as a Bar — Unrounded Adverse Claims. It is not a valid answer to an action to quiet title, nor a bar to the suit, that the plaintiff had foreclosed a tax certificate and secured a tax deed upon the same property in an action against the same defendant, who made default after personal service, and that the defendant claims no interest or estate acquired since such foreclosure, since the action would lie against prior and unfounded adverse claims, impliedly admitted by such answer, thereby warranting judgment on the pleadings in favor of the plaintiff.</p>