24 Wash. 405 | Wash. | 1901
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Original contest over application for tide lands. Contest decided against respondent by the board of state land commissioners on Pebruary Y, 1898. The
The latter part of § 4887, Bal. Oode, — a section in relation to Us pendens, — provides:
“And the court in which the said action was commenced*407 may, in its discretion, at any time after the action shall be settled, discontinued or abated, on application of any person aggrieved and on good cause shown and on such notice as shall be directed or approved by the court, order the notice authorized in this section to be canceled of record, in whole or in part, by the county auditor of any county in whose office the same may have been filed or recorded, and such cancellation shall be made by an indorsement to that effect on the margin of the record.”
The lis pendens is evidently viewed by the law as a cloud on the title to land which it describes. The appellants have an undoubted right to have that cloud removed. The order of the court refusing to remove it is an order affecting their substantial rights, and is therefore appealable.
The judgment will be reversed, and the cause remanded, with instructions to order the lis pendens canceled in the manner prescribed by § 4887, supra.
Reavis, C. J., and Fullerton and Anders, JJ., concur.