Street v. Ringsmyer

The plaintiff is the owner of a tract of land on the John Day River in Grant County. To gain access to the county road south of his lands, he purchased a roadway running in the direction of the public highway along the east boundary of land owned by the defendant. Immediately south of plaintiff’s lands and east of his roadway lies a tract owned by one Sterritt. The river runs northerly and westerly through the plaintiff’s lands. What is known as Max Robinson’s Slough heads near the river southeast of plaintiff’s lands, flows in a general *350westerly course until it enters the land of Sterritt,…