JUDGE DECIDES
LAND QUIBBLE
OLYMPIA, Wash., May 4—(AP)—Determining that the land under litigation is correctly in the province of the
river rather than a part of the Washington coast line, Judge John M. Wilson of the superior court has just denied an injunction which would have
barred Clark V. Savidge, state land
commissioner, from leasing tide lands
at the mouth of the Columbia river.
A temporary injunction was obtained
by the Williams fishing company of
South Bend, about 10 days ago, on the
assertion that by the proposed five year
leasing of the tidelands to the Baker bay fish company, the terms of an act of 1901 legislature would have been violated.
This act forever set aside the Washington coast line from Cape disappointment to Peterson point, south of Grays harbor, as a permanent natural highway. The opinion just given orders the temporary injunction dissolved, upon the showing that plaintiff company never has maintained traps on its site adjacent to contested property and that photographs introduced at the hearing would show that by the irregularity of the shore line near the river, the site is not a part of the coast.