Ramsey v. Wilson

Citations

• 52 Wash. 111
• 100 P. 177
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1083

Syllabus

<p>Adverse Possession — Entry on Public Lands — Good Faith— Possession Without Color of Title — School Lands — Judgments— Parties Bound — Participating in Test Case. There is no entry upon land in good faith under color of title, so as to constitute title by adverse possession, where it appears that defendants went upon the adjoining forty and attempted to file a homestead claim upon the whole tract, knowing that the state claimed the land; that the filing was successfully contested by the state in the land department, after which a test case was appealed by a neighboring settler to the United States supreme court and the decision affirmed, and the defendants contributed to the expense of such appeal and were interested in the result; since there could be no claim in good faith after the adverse decision of the contest, and defendants became bound by the judgment by participating in the appeal in the other test case.</p>