State v. Heuston

Citations

• 56 Wash. 268
• 105 P. 474
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 887

Syllabus

<p>Public Lands — Sale—Lands Subject to Sale — Oyster Beds— Finding of Commissioners — -Effect—Fraud in Application for Sale.' Where the law required the. state oyster commission to examine all natural oyster beds and establish reserves, and the commission established reserves in the vicinity of certain lands which were excluded from the reserve, making the same subject to sale, and such lands were afterwards sold by the state, the state is concluded by the acts of the commissioners, who are presumed to have done their duty, in the absence of fraud or improper motive on their part, and cannot attack the deeds on the ground that the original applicants for the land knew that the same contained natural oyster beds and had made false affidavits to secure the sale of the land.</p>