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<div style="direction: ltr;">I haven’t read it but will. Sounds awful </div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Rob Wilson-Hoss <rob@hctc.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 26, 2019 5:59:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'WSBA Real Property Listserv' <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Catherine Clark <Cat@loccc.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Porter v. Kirkendoll</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Another rant from me about a Supreme Court case. If you think that practitioners shouldn't criticize court decisions directly in public, then this isn't for you. And it
is only really for those who deal with real property timber trespass and waste claims. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Another head scratching decision from the Supreme Court today, Porter v. Kirkendoll. There is much analysis about torts and indemnification and so on, which seems right
to me, but the part at the end discusses when the waste statute applies, with its added damages (attorney fees and expert fees, etc.), and when the timber trespass statute applies. Virtually any waste case that I have seen will involve the destruction to or
removal of, in the words of the timber trespass statute, "cut down, girdle, or otherwise injure or carry off any tree, timber or shrub... ." Maybe you have had a waste case that did not involve any of this, but I haven't seen one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The problem is that the waste statute says that it applies when someone goes onto the property of another and removes timber, crops, etc, or wrongfully causes injury to
the land... .But it also says, at the very end, it won't apply when the timber trespass applies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">So, the Supreme Court says that the first part of the waste statute about timber and so on, we just have to ignore that. The result will be that the waste statute is pared
back about 95% in many cases. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Except for the first part of the waste statute, the part where it says that it applies to removal of timber, which, again, it decides to ignore, the Supreme Court said
that the two statutes could be reconciled, when each refers to removing timber, by the slightly different language in the timber trespass statute that says "carry off." The decision pretends to make that carry off language apply to all of the actions you can
do to a tree, but it is clearly only disjunctive- cut down OR carry off any tree. Nonsense. The result is very difficult for practitioners - if the wrongdoer leaves the trees there, as opposed to carrying off the trees "a distance," then the waste statute
applies? What distance? What if the log trucks are loaded when the injunction hits?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">They do include in a footnote a reference to not deciding this issue as posed by a footnote in Gunn v. Riely, 185 Wn App 517, 525 n6, at their footnote 10, which is a
pretty big issue. So, I guess, the only thing that they are really saying is that if there is no comprehensive property damage that includes damage to property and removal of timber, as Gunn said, and which hasn't been decided one way or the other by either
case, then the issue is, how far did they take the trees? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Saying that this was the intent of the Legislature just makes me say, Really? How about just admitting that the Legislature didn't think very clearly about this and the
result is sort of a mess? Or, you could twist things into your conclusion that this is "the legislature's clear intent."
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Again, Really?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This was a 9-0 decision.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Robert D. Wilson-Hoss
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Hoss & Wilson-Hoss, LLP <br>
236 West Birch Street <br>
Shelton, WA 98584 <br>
360 426-2999<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:rob@hctc.com"><span style="color:blue">rob@hctc.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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