Baird v. Knutzen

[49 Wash2d Page 309] The defendants Knutzen owned eighty acres of timberland near Lake Whatcom. In order to log it, they needed an easement over
plaintiffs' abutting land. In 1949, they entered into an acknowledged agreement by which plaintiffs granted them a logging
right-of-way easement for a period of eight years, for which they agreed to pay fifty dollars a year rental and, after three
years, to convey the eighty acres to plaintiffs by a warranty deed. They paid the first year's rental and no more. On two
occasions, plaintiffs called them on the telephone and demanded the rental for the second year.