SWEETEN v. U.S. DEPT. OF AGR. FOREST SERVICE

No. 80-1670.

684 F.2d 679 (1982)

Beth H. SWEETEN, Gordon P. Owen, Jr., and Carolyn Owen, his wife, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE, Verlin Bowcutt and Jeannette Bowcutt, his wife, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

July 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight L. King of King & Peterson, Salt Lake City, Utah, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Dirk Snel, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Sanford Sagalkin, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Ronald L. Rencher, U. S. Atty., D. Utah, Barbara W. Johnsen, Asst. U. S. Atty., D. Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Anne S. Almy and Robert D. Clark, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before McWILLIAMS, BARRETT and McKAY, Circuit Judges.


McKAY, Circuit Judge.

This case involves a boundary line dispute between appellants and the United States Forest Service over a mountainous tract of land in Summit County, Utah. At issue is the proper location of the north-south center line of Section 8, Township 1 South, Range 7 East, Salt Lake Meridian, which divides national forest land and appellants' land.

The land in question was first surveyed for the United States in 1893 by Mr. Jessen, and was patented...

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