Springer v. DURRETTE ET UX

The plaintiff brought this suit to obtain a declaratory decree adjudicating the ownership of a parcel of land built up as an accretion to the upland by the action of the Willamette River. The defendants’ and plaintiff’s lands are contiguous, the defendants’ land being to the north of the plaintiff’s land. The Willamette River flows in a northerly direction on the west side of the two tracts. The accretion, which is in the form of a peninsula in the river, extends along the westerly sides of the plaintiff’s and defendants’ land. The peninsula has its base at the westerly boundary of…