Sheldon v. Flathead County

Plaintiffs appeal a judgment entered against them in the Eleventh Judicial District, Flathead County, on October 16, 1984, following a bench trial on an action to quiet title. The court decreed that Patrick Creek Road is a sixty-foot-wide declared county right-of-way and public road in its entirety and as it crosses plaintiffs’ real property.

We affirm. We hold that Reid v. Park County (1981), 627 P.2d 1210, 38 St.Rep. 631, controls and that it is sufficient if the record as a whole supports a finding that a public road was created in 1902. Here, the record supports the finding that Patrick…