Saeger v. Baldwin

Citations

• 72 Wash. 197
• 130 P. 114
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1431

Syllabus

<p>Highways — Establishment — Prescription — Expenditure of Public Funds — Evidence—Sufficiency. Use of a private way granted to neighbors, who had no other access to the public road, does not create a public highway by prescription, nor under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 5657, making such roads public highways when they have been “worked and kept up at the expense of the public” for seven years, where it appears that for eleven years the way had been used exclusively for the convenience of one owner, a gate had been maintained across it, and not exceeding $20 or $25 of public funds had been expended on it during fourteen years.</p>