2011 Washington Code
Title 64 Real property and conveyances
64.12 Waste and trespass.
64.12.040 Mitigating circumstances -- Damages.
If upon trial of such action it shall appear that the trespass was casual or involuntary, or that the defendant had probable cause to believe that the land on which such trespass was committed was his own, or that of the person in whose service or by whose direction the act was done, or that such tree or timber was taken from uninclosed woodlands, for the purpose of repairing any public highway or bridge upon the land or adjoining it, judgment shall only be given for single damages.
[Code 1881 § 603; 1877 p 125 § 608; 1869 p 143 § 557; RRS § 940.]
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