Wyckoff v. Mayfield

It is the settled law of this state that a line running to the bank of a stream or to a stream which is non-navigable extends to the center or thread of the stream. There is no pretense that Rogue River is navigable at the place in dispute: Minto v. Delaney, 7 Or. 337; Micelli v. Andrus, 61 Or. 78, 85 et seq. (120 Pac. 737), and authorities therein cited,

The meander line is placed for the purpose of computing the acreage within the boundaries. The stream is the real boundary, not the meander line, whether the course is described as extending to the bank of the stream or to the stream itself:…