Idaho Forest Industries, Inc. v. Hayden Lake Watershed Improvement District

TROUT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the district court’s judgment quieting title in the record title holders to thirty acres on the landward side of a dike. The State of Idaho (the State) claims title to the property under the equal footing and public trust doctrines. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

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FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Idaho Forest Industries, Inc. and Tom and Sheila Richards (collectively “IFI”) have title of record to approximately thirty acres of land on the landward (west) side of a dike across Honeysuckle Bay on Hayden Lake. The Hayden Lake Protective…