Legal Opinion
United States of America, Plaintiff-Counterdefendant-Appellee v. Helen Pappas, Defendant-Counterclaimant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 13, 1987No. 85-4179PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEEZER, Circuit Judge:
Pappas appeals from judgment quieting title in the United States to lands omitted from an original government survey. The plat prepared from the survey indicates that Pappas’s land borders on the Snake River. Because the judgment does not provide Pappas riverfront, we reverse.
Background
In 1955, the Government conveyed Lot 2 to Pappas. The patent described Lot 2 as
Sec. 22, Lot 2.
The area described contains 39.75 acres, according to the official plat of the survey of the said land, on file in the Bureau of Land Management.
The official plat (“the 1874 plat”) was prepared by…
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