46 Wash. 2d 152 - Niven v. Sheehan’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “When property is held continuously during the statutory period of ten years up to a barrier recognized and accepted as the boundary line between it and adjoining property, under a claim of right as owner, although the true line is on the property of the person or .persons so holding, that portion between the true line and the recognized barrier is held adversely to the true owner.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 68 Wash. 2d 785 - Magelssen v. Cox · 72 Wash. 2d 535 - Krona v. Brett