Maffet v. Quine

BELLINGER, District Judge.

During the years 1887 and 1888 the Latourell Falls Wagon Hoad & Lumber Company, a corporation, located and constructed a flume for a distance of some four miles, connecting their lumber mill with the town of Latourell., This *348flume was constructed of lumber, and crossed’ tbe land owned by tbe defendant, Quine. Tbe plaintiff has succeeded to the property and rights of the Latourell Company. There is a question as to whether this land, at the time the flume was constructed, was pub: lie land of the United States, or whether it belonged to the Northern Pacific Railroad…