Strom v. Sheldon

This is an appeal from an order quieting title to a strip of land in the defendants, and from the refusal of the trial court to enjoin defendants from interfering with plaintiffs’ use of a slough.

The deeds to both plaintiffs’ and defendants’ property describe their mutual boundary as being the center, or thread, of a small stream known as “Whiskey Slough.” The slough empties into Willapa Harbor. In 1954 the father and predecessor in title of the defendant husband dredged the slough in order to widen it. As a result of the dredging, a significant portion of the stream shifted onto his (now the…