Coussens v. Stevens

Defendants appeal from a judgment quieting title in plaintiffs to a strip of land between Ocean Avenue and the ordinary high tide line of the Pacific Ocean in the City of Cannon Beach. Defendants assign error to the trial court’s allowance of plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, arguing that plaintiffs failed to prove the strength of their titles because, inter alia, the relevant plat map establishes Ocean Avenue as the western boundary of plaintiffs’ lots.1 We conclude that plaintiffs’ lots are bounded on the west by Ocean Avenue and that, therefore, the trial court erred in granting…