26 Wash. App. 802 - Smith v. Breen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 90 Wash. 2d 476 - Seattle School District No. 1 v. State · 62 Wash. 2d 561 - Ferree v. Doric Co. · 13 Wash. 2d 75 - Northwest Cities Gas Co. v. Western Fuel Co. · Watson v. County Commissioners · 50 Wash. 2d 105 - Malnati v. Ramstead
Most-quoted passages
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“Adverse user is such use of property as the owner himself would exercise, entirely disregarding the claims of others, asking permission from no one, and using the property under a claim of right. Hostile use of real property by an occupant or user does not import ill will, but imports that the claimant is possessing or using it as owner, in contradistinction to possessing or using the real property in recognition of or subordinate to the title of the true owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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