Peterson v. Baker

Citations

• 39 Wash. 275
• 81 P. 681
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 857

Syllabus

<p>Highways—Public Land—School Section—Grant by Congress-Reservation for Public Use—Construction. The right of way over public lands except those reserved for public use, granted by U. S. Rev. Stats., § 2477, for the construction of public highways, applies to school sections 16 and 36; since U. S. Rev. Stats., § 1947, reserving such sections for the use of the common schools was but a declaration of governmental policy and did not reserve them for public use so as to except them from the operation of the grant; hence the maintenance of a public road over a school section for more than seven years establishes a valid subsisting public highway under Bal. Code, § 3846.</p>