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· 9/6/1979

Veach v. Culp

Citations

  • 599 P.2d 526
  • 92 Wash. 2d 570
  • 1979 Wash. LEXIS 1427

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a deed conveying “[a] right-of- way one hundred feet wide” conveyed an easement, not a fee simple
  • construing a deed quitclaiming a “ ‘right-of-way one hundred feet wide, being fifty feet on each side of the center line of the B.B. & Eastern R.R. as now located. ..”
  • finding an easement where the granting clause conveyed “[a] right-of-way one hundred feet wide . . . excepting all rights for road purposes that may have been conveyed to [the County] and reserving all littoral and riparian rights to [the grantors]”
  • “To have and to hold, all and singular, said premises, together with the appurtenances unto the said party of the second part, and to its assigns forever.”
  • use of language \right-of-way\ is conclusive of intent to convey easement
  • granted “[a] right-of-way one hundred feet wide . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Brachtenbach, Utter, Rosellini, Wright, Horowitz, Dolliver, Hicks, Williams, Elston

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