Court Opinion

ID: 9628753
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:31:01.714132+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:10.909326
License: Public Domain

Donworth, J.
(concurring in the result) — Since, because of appellants’ failure to comply with Rule on Appeal 43, this court must accept the trial court’s findings of fact as the established facts of this case, the only result that can be reached is that appellants do not have, and never have had, any rights under the Treaty of Point Elliott, and hence there is no legal basis for appellants’ claim. State v. Quigley, 52 Wn.2d 234, 324 P.2d 827 (1958).
Appellants are in no different position with respect to fishing rights than non-Indians are. I, therefore, concur in the affirmance of the trial court’s injunctive decree.