McDonald v. Halvorson

This dispute arose between plaintiffs, the owners of property on a portion of the Oregon Coast known as “Big Whale Cove,” and defendants, the owners of adjacent property to the north on which “Little Whale Cove” is situated, over whether each had access to the other’s cove.

Plaintiffs brought this lawsuit seeking to quiet title against defendants’ claim of a prescriptive easement over a trail on plaintiffs’ land that runs south from Little Whale Cove to Big Whale Cove, and requesting a declaratory judgment that their property includes a portion of the “dry-sand area” of Little Whale Cove,…