Yesler Estate, Inc. v. Holmes

Citations

• 39 Wash. 34
• 80 P. 851
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 808

Syllabus

<p>Adverse Possession—Disseizin—Entry Under Claim op Right. Adverse possession, to work a disseizin of the true owner, must be under a claim of right or color of title, and it is proper in ejectment to instruct a jury that an entry on the lands of another under a mistaken though honest belief that the same are public lands subject to entry, would not work a disseizin of the true owner.</p>