McPhee v. Kelsey
Oregon Supreme Court
From Baker: Robert Eakin, Juclge. Suit to determine conflicting water rights by J. D. Mc-Phee, James Dalton, and P. L. Smith against L. S. Kelsey, resulting in a decree for defendant, from which this appeal is taken.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wolverton
1. In the year 1888 the defendant, Kelsey, and O’Bryant, J. D. Wilson, and his son were the owners of a ditch which intersects North Powder River twenty chains south of the center of section 36, township 6 south of range 38 east of the Willamette Meridian, and runs in a southeasterly direction nearly seven-eighths of a mile to the dividing line between the lands of defendant and one Hutchinson; thence south on such line about one-half mile to an intersection with a swale or slough known as the “ Hutchinson Slough,” which had its outlet into the Warm Spring Branch a half *195mile or more to the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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