Lalim v. Williams County

MORRIS, Judge.

This litigation was initiated as an action to quiet title to a 40-acre and an 80-acre tract of land to which the plaintiff contends he owns the fee simple title subject to certain easements for highway purposes. Williams County answered and counterclaimed, alleging that it was vested with a fee simple title to two 7-foot strips of land lying within the two tracts and described as follows:

“a. A strip of land lying in the SWj4 SW}4 of Section 23, Township 158 North, Range 95 West, said strip being described as follows: A strip of land 40 feet wide lying East of, adjacent to and…