79 P. 412 | Or. | 1905
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit to enjoin the construction and maintenance of a boom in the Coquille River in front of lots 7 and 8, section 7, and lots 4 and 5 in section 3, township 28 south, range 13 west, in Coos County. The defendant owns or has license to occupy the water front, and permission from the United States government to construct and operate the boom. The plaintiff claims to be the owner, as the successor in interest of the grantees of the State, of a narrow strip of tide land, alleged to be from one to fifteen feet wide, and about a mile long, lying between the upland and the river, and that the proposed boom will interfere with the ingress to and egress from such tide land. The defendant denies the existence of the alleged tide land. Upon the testimony the court below found that the strip of land in controversy “varies in width, at some places not exceeding three inches in width, at others the bank is perpendicular, and its greatest width in any place does not exceed sixteen feet,” and that it was not tide land, and therefore dismissed the complaint.
The decree of the court below is affirmed. Aebirmeu.