Legal Opinion
United States v. Otley
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 21, 1942No. 9696PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Circuit Judge.
The United States appeals from a judgment holding that certain lands in Malheur Lake, a non-navigable body of fresh water in Oregon, were bordering upon lands transferred by fourteen of its patents to the predecessors in interest of certain appellees, and declaring they were lands conveyed by the patents. The United States is hereinafter called the “plaintiff” and these appellees, defendants below, the “patentees.”
The areas of land under the lake so held to be conveyed were for each patent those between “ordinary” or “mean” high water lake boundary of the patent and two…
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3Cited by16 opinions
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