Petterson v. Waske

Citations

• 45 Wash. 307
• 88 P. 206
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 462

Syllabus

<p>Highways — Private Ways — Adverse Use- — Prescriptions—Evidence — Sufficiency. The evidence is insufficient to establish either a public or private way by prescriptive use, where it appears that the land in question was an uninclosed school section, used and traveled over at will in all directions by the people residing in the vicinity, that travel followed no fixed or definite track after leaving appellants’ adjoining premises, and the way in question was used only by the owners of such property, and such use was interrupted by lessees of the school land and the interruption acquiesced in by the payment of a consideration for the use of the way prior to the expiration of the statutory period of ten years.</p>