Court Opinion

ID: 9601108
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:36:39.408449+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:49:45.720889
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE ADAIR
dissenting:
I dissent.
Maud H. Brannon purchased and paid for Lots 17 through 28, Block 186 of the Syndicate Addition to the City of Helena, Montana, as same are described on the plat of said Addition on file in the County courthouse, and she paid Lewis and Clark County, the seller, in full for the Lots so described and purchased. Thereafter she brought suit in the district court of said County to quiet her title to such Lots as so described, and on June 16, 1950, said district court issued its judgment quieting her title to said premises and all thereof. The effect of the present decision is to nullify such judgment quieting her title. In my opinion, Lewis and Clark County is estopped from here asserting and claiming a right of way across Mrs. Brannon’s property for which that County has paid nothing, but for which Mrs. Brannon has paid the County in full, including all taxes thereon from the date of her purchase to the present time.