City of Missoula v. Bakke

Survey lines, definite and fixed, marked upon the ground and accurately represented on the plat by Washington J. McCormick, the original patentee, constitute the boundaries and show the limits of each and every lot in block 56 of patentee’s addition to the city of Missoula. None of the lands here claimed by the city falls within such survey lines so bounding the lots nor do any of the lands fall within the lines constituting the boundaries and defining the limits of said addition. All the land which the city here claims lies wholly without and beyond the boundary lines fixed by the patentee…