The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-01-29

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Everett, Wash.
al thought would drop you
limo to find out II can collect my
wages. started to work for man
who took a contract from mill COM
pany for putting In shlngle bolts at so
much a cord, and he was to have
bouaht a certain donkey and drag
saw from them. AS the drag-saw Will
not work, he can not make anything
and they are talking of taking the con-
tract away from him. As have run
the donkey since the 18th OF June, be-
sides working on the road, will you
kindly advise me II can hold the
donkey engine or the MILL company for
my wages, or II have to lose 1t all?
Hoping to hear from you through the
columns of the Commonwealth, I re-
main, X. h. b.
Aft not more than thirty go days
have elapsed since you quit work, then
you can file a lien for your labor upon
the single bolts which you helped to
put in and upon the shingles cut there
from. You cannot hold the mill COM
pany directly. That can only be done
indirectly through the logger's lien. If
your immediate employer, the contrac-
tor, has any property, or IL he owns
the donkey engines and the drag-saw,
you can attach the said property or
any other which he may have.
o. am subscriber to the Com
monwealth and would like some advice
through It. One Nanny, owing home
stead situated east of the government
reservation and now within the cor
porate limits of Vancouver, decided to
Clarke county thirty feet for a road
between sections 25 and &c running
west to the government reservation.
There was a road there before the land
was sold off In small praceIs and 1t is
80 or 40 feet south of the line stated.
The people living on the north side Of
the line have fenced to the road but
their deeds give them the land to that
line only. The deeds of the people
living on the south side of the road
give them the land up to this same
line, but they have fenced to the road
only, and are short that much land.
The Blind school, which is situated on
the north side of the line, fenced to
this line only, and there has been a
vacant space between the school fence
and the road for twenty years; but this
fall they rebuilt their fence to the
road. Every deed and abstract calls
for that line and every city map shows
1t. Now, the road Is only twenty feet
wide. Cannot the people living on the
south side of the line make the city
open the road wider without paying
for land that belongs either to them
or to the city? B. F. p.
A.-Of those on the north side of the
road, the Blind school can be ousted
from the land they have taken posses
sion of; but those who have taken and
held possession for more than ten
years may be able to hold the land.
However, they must have made
claim to it and thought that it be-
longed to them. II they merely fenced
in and used a convenient piece of land
without making any claim to the legal
title and knowing that it belonged to
some one else, they can be ousted
from the land. 1t will depend upon
the facts and proof in respect to each
individual holder. If the county can
recover the original thirty-foot right
of-way it can build the road there. If
it wants to widen the road where it is
it will have to condemn the necessary
land or secure quit claim deeds.