Shertzer v. Hillman Investment Co.

Citations

• 52 Wash. 492
• 100 P. 982
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1144

Syllabus

<p>Dedication — Parks—Rights of Purchasers — Injunction Against Repeat or Sale. Purchasers of lots in an addition, in which the plattors have dedicated land for a park thereby inducing the sales and increasing the value of the lots, may maintain an action to enjoin the recording of a second plat whereby the park is subdivided into lots, and from selling the park or interfering with its use by the public.</p> <p>Dedication — Parks—Acts Constituting — Corporations—Acts of Officers — Estoppel. The acts of a corporation in platting an addition of suburban property amount to a dedication of part of the land as a park, where a large copy of the plat used in selling lots was exhibited on the walls of its office maintained in the addition, large signs directed investors to the location of the park, it was featured in advertisements in the newspapers, and improved as a park, and the selling agent and the president of the company owning a majority of the capital stock represented it as a park for public use, and the corporation received the benefit of sales made on such representations.</p>