O'Hare v. Johnson

Plaintiff Ed. O’Hare and defendant Gustave T. Johnson own adjoining farms in the Bitter Root Valley in Ravalli county. The Johnson land lies southeast of the O’Hare land with an east and west county road between. The general slope of the country is from southeast to northwest with the O’Hare land lying lower than the Johnson land.

O’Hare’s land comprises 160 acres which he purchased in 1934. The two west forties then consisted of very poor, wet, undrained alkalied waste land where only alkali grass and salt grass grew, and, extending from the south to the north was a depression or slough which…