DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY v. ADSIT

No. 50825-9.

103 Wn.2d 698 (1985)

694 P.2d 1065

THE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY, Respondent, v. EARL A. ADSIT, ET AL, Appellants.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

January 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis, Arneil, Dorsey, Kight & Parlette, by Jay A. Johnson, for appellant Evangelical Covenant Church.

Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, Charles B. Roe, Jr., Senior Assistant, and Wick Dufford and Charles K. Douthwaite, Assistants, for respondent.


UTTER, J.

Circle C Ranch, and various parties representing it, appeal from a finding of the trial court that certain water rights claims made under the 1967 water rights act by the ranch were improperly filed and that no water rights accrued to the ranch by virtue of the improper filing. We reverse the trial court and hold that, under some circumstances, the doctrine of substantial compliance may be used to meet the requirements...

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