Hearing Awaited In Land Dispute
April 23^rd, 1950

Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Strom posted "No Trespassing" signs this week along property lines which they have claimed marked the boundaries of their property at the head of Court Street. They made this claim in a civil suit brought in superior court last November. No decision has been rendered by the court as yet.

A log has been placed across the entry to a dirt road continuing up the hill from Court Street and "no trespassing" signs placed on it. Four other small “no trespassing” signs have been placed in this area, one of them on a stick stuck between the pipes on the Camp Fire Girls' cabin oil drums, and another at the edge of the stone steps leading into the cabin. It is signed by "Enoch Strom and Nora Strom."

Mrs. Kenneth Doyle, president of the Camp Fire council, decided not to make an issue of the situation upon advice of the trustees C. D. Mathews and Dr. C. I. Burnett. The council will wait upon the decision of the judge. In the meantime the Camp Fire Girls are meeting at the McKinley School and in various private homes.

Three "no trespassing signs” are posted on a line which would cut off Dr. Burnett's garage from the rest of his property. Dr. and Mrs. Burnett continue to use the garage. The property in question is a continuation of Court St. which had been abandoned by the city in 1930 or 1931.

Dr. and Mrs. Burnett claimed title to one-half of the street, the north side which adjoins their property, when they appeared in court last November. They have put up a fence and garage on that section, and have paid taxes on it for about 10 years.

Enoch Strom and his wife claimed title to the whole street including the site upon which the Camp Fire cabin now stands. The Stroms have a deed to the south side of the street, and a bill of sale or deed from Don L. Woodward, who sold them the property, to the whole street. They have been paying taxes on the south side of the street for a number of years.

Mrs. Ray Packwood and Mrs. T.C. Tempers, former Camp Fire officials named in the case, claimed that when the city abandoned the street, it did not abandon that section which is now the site of their cabin, so that no one else can rightfully take possession of that land.

J. O. Moncur, superior court judge of Plumas county, came down from Quincy to hear the case in Susanville. Through a technicality, B. V. Curler, superior court judge of Lassen county, could not preside.