McCafferty v. Young

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff brought an action to quiet title and defendants appeal from an amended judgment entered following trial before the court.

The ease arises out of a boundary line dispute between two ranchers. The plaintiff-respondent’s ranch lies generally to the west of the North Fork of the Sun River, and the defendant-appellant’s ranch lies generally to the east. The complaint was filed February 14, 1961, after several river bank arguments concerning the location of fences separating the ranches.

The area of conflict lies in…