Hislop v. County of Lincoln

Since 1951 plaintiffs have owned a tract of land approximately 27 acres in area in Lincoln County on Alsea Bay. Plaintiffs make their home on the property and operate there a trailer park. In recent years lands fronting on Alsea Bay and the Pacific Ocean and lying west of plaintiffs’ property have been subdivided and platted. This development, known as Bay-shore, contains 900 lots. The controversy here arises out of the defendant Lincoln County’s claim, first asserted in 1965, that a county road, which has never been opened, crosses, plaintiffs’ property from United States Highway 101 on the…