Rice v. Pershall

Citations

• 41 Wash. 73
• 82 P. 1038
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 1070

Syllabus

<p>Highways — Prescription—User—Findings—Sufficiency. In a suit to restrain a trespass, justified on the ground that the locus in quo was a public highway, a finding that a road “during the last fourteen years has been traveled by the public generally during all of said time, and known by the people in the vicinity as a public highway” is not sufficient to establish a highway by prescription, in the absence of any showing as to the character of the travel, the nature of the country, the number of people using it, or whether the use was permissive or otherwise.</p>