Baxter v. Utah Department of Transportation

OPINION

JACKSON, Judge:

Ronald L. Baxter and Shirley Diane Baxter (the Baxters) appeal from a judgment quieting title to six acres of land in the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT). We reverse.

This dispute arises out of the territorial General Assembly’s use of the center of the channel of the Weber River as part of the southern border of Weber County and the northern border of Davis County, in combination with two facts. First, until at least 1886, the river moved through more than one channel in the vicinity of the property now claimed by the parties. Second, the channel of the Weber…