Sweeten v. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

This case involves a boundary line dispute between appellants and the United States Forest Service over a mountainous tract of land in Summit County, Utah. At issue is the proper location of the north-south center line of Section 8, Township 1 South, Range 7 East, Salt Lake Meridian, which divides national forest land and appellants’ land.

The land in question was first surveyed for the United States in 1893 by Mr. Jessen, and was patented to appellants’ predecessors in interest in 1902. The Bureau of Land Management carried out a dependent resurvey1 of Section 8 by Mr.…