Tauscher v. Andruss

This is a suit for a mandatory injunction requiring defendants to change the location of a moorage line. Plaintiffs appeal from a decree denying them equitable relief.

Plaintiffs and defendants own adjoining parcels of land along the Columbia river and both operate marinas. Originally Tom Lineham owned both parcels constituting at that time one parcel with a 250-foot river frontage. In 1950 he established the first moor-age in the area by driving dolphins in a northerly direction into the river. In 1954 he sold to defendants the west 150 feet of his property. The moorage extended from the…