Pacific Livestock Co. v. Gentry

This is a suit by the Pacific Livestock Company (a corporation) against James Gentry to enjoin an alleged trespass, and to recover damages therefor. The facts are that one James Sullivan, having settled on unsurveyed public lands of the United States known as the “Rinehart Springs Ranch,” in Malheur County, Oregon, cleared about 40 acres thereof, which he sowed to> alfalfa, irrigating it with water from springs thereon, and about 1888 sold said improvements to plaintiff, a corporation engaged in raising cattle in Harney and Malheur counties. This ranch is situated on the Owyhee River, which…