This Week in Odessa History

A barbed fence which had been put up across Pacific Lake in 1922 was cause for a lawsuit that went all the way to the state Supreme Court.

Ninety years ago this week, the court upheld the decision that the lake was navigable and its waters were open to all. The fence had to be removed.

The Odessa Record reported the case in its issue of November 10, 1922:

Pacific Lake is a navigable body of water. The Supreme Court of the State of Washington has declared it so.

This decision, which was recently received by attorney W.M. Nevins, council for the defendant in the case of E.J. Lant versus T.B. Wol...