Helland v. Custer County

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

This is a suit commenced July 22, 1950, by Roy E. Helland as plaintiff, to quiet title to certain lands in the abandoned channel or bed of Tongue river, situate in the southerly portion of the S % of section 34, in township 8 north, range 47 east of the Montana Meridian in Custer county, Montana.

The only defendants named in the complaint filed were Custer county and the city of Miles City. Later, however, Iva M. Hartman was allowed to file a complaint in intervention wherein she claimed an interest in the lands described in plaintiff’s complaint.

The plaintiff and the…